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Celebrating Irish Children’s Books | Online School and Family Book Festival.
WonderFest is over for 2021. Thank you to everyone who took part. See you in 2022!

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Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland - Literature

1pm | Lunchtime Tales of Wonder with PJ Lynch and Flora Delargy in conversation with Patricia Forde

November 20, 2021 1:00 pm
Cost: €5 per family
Until 2:00 pm
AGE 8+

PJ Lynch is one of Ireland’s most highly regarded and best loved children’s book illustrators. Recently he has also written some of his own stories including the award-winner, The Haunted Lake. Flora is new to the world of children’s books, but her debut book, Rescuing Titanic, the tale of the brave crew of the Carpathia, is already receiving much critical acclaim.

PJ and Flora will talk to writer Patricia Forde about their new books, growing up in Belfast and how they became illustrators.

They will show images from their books and also share the secrets of their sketchbooks. Don’t miss this very special event for all book lovers, young and young at heart!

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Flora Delargy

Flora Delargy is an author and illustrator from Belfast who loves to bring to life true tales and events from the past. In 2020, Flora completed an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art, graduating with a Distinction. She also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from King’s College London. In 2019, she was selected for the Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Rescuing Titanic, published by Quarto in September 2021, is her first book.

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PJ Lynch

PJ Lynch was born in Belfast, and became interested in art at an early age. He has worked as a children’s book illustrator since leaving Brighton College of Art in England in 1984, and has illustrated dozens of books, including modern classics such as Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. PJ has been awarded the Christopher Medal three times. He has also won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal on two occasions, first for The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski, and again for When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest. PJ illustrated the anthology Once Upon a Place, which was compiled by Eoin Colfer as Laureate na nÓg. In 2015, PJ published The Boy who Fell off the Mayflower, the first picturebook he both wrote and illustrated. Since then, he has illustrated books including Eoin Colfer’s The Dog Who Lost His Bark and Patrick and the President, by Ryan Tubridy. Written and illustrated by PJ, The Haunted Lake, was the winner of the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Honour Award for Illustration 2021. Clement C Moore's 'Twas The Night Before Christmas is PJ's latest work. PJ Lynch was Ireland’s fourth Laureate na nÓg (2016-2018).

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Rescuing Titanic

Rescuing Titanic tells with exquisite illustrations and richly-detailed text the story of the little ship Carpathia and its heroic journey rescuing passengers from the Titanic. This dramatic and visually-immersive story was meticulously researched by astonishing debut talent Flora Delargy, whose own grandfather worked in the shipyard where Titanic was built.

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

“‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…” P.J. Lynch brings his rich and atmospheric art to the well-loved Christmas verse. From the stockings hung by the chimney to the bundle of toys flung over St Nicholas’s back, children will love to pore over the detailed images inside. A book to return to again and again.

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Wonderfest Wonderfest · 3 months ago
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This looks terrific - we'll be there! A must for any children's writers or illustrators and anyone who wants to find out more about children's books. https://t.co/6LtaWDfkBp
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Sarah Webb@sarahwebbishere
Join us at the next online #ChildrensBookSalon on Thurs 24 Feb 7.30pm with
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@markbradleyart + @KatiaCotton
talking about their new books.
A must for all who love children's books.
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Wonderfest Wonderfest · 6 months ago
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Watch out for #BookElves2021 from today until 2nd Dec - lots of great recommendations from children's writers, illustrators, librarians, teachers and more.
If you're looking for a children's book, the elves are there to help! https://t.co/MXGLs3Zeve
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Sarah Webb@sarahwebbishere
🚨The #BookElves2021 are back!🚨
We are children's writers, illustrators, booksellers, reviewers, librarians and teachers and we LOVE children's books.
Today we'll be recommending some of our favourite #IrishBooks
Watch out for us during @RTELateLateShow #LateLateToyShow too! https://t.co/wxNdd7sxli
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Wonderfest Wonderfest · 6 months ago
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And that’s a wrap! #WonderFest21 has officially come to an end and we’ve had an incredible time celebrating the best of children’s books in Ireland over the last five days. https://t.co/Inkm4UrgpU
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