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Celebrating Irish Children’s Books | Online School and Family Book Festival. This year we are part of the Dublin Book Festival.

Festival books - 2021

Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland - Literature

Boot: The Creaky Creatures

For fans of Toy Story and Charlie Changes into a Chicken, this is the third hilarious, warm-hearted story about a small robot on a big

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Pígin’s Unexpected Adventure

Join Pigín on an unexpected trip – all the way to London! Pigín is enjoying a wonderful summer party at the fairies’ place behind Howth

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Holy Shocking Saints

Holy Shocking Saints is a beautifully illustrated book celebrating the extraordinary lives of twelve remarkable people. Whether mystics, healers or holy people, their strong belief

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Elsetime

A haunting story of friendship, courage, time-travel and a very special crow. It is January 6th 1928, the day before the Great Flood. There’s a

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Molly and the Lighthouse

One night, Molly realises the lighthouse isn’t working, wakes up her friend Dylan, and sets off to help. But will Molly and Dylan be able

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Geansaí Ottó

Tá stíl ag Ottó agus is breá leis éadaí deasa. Ach ní thuigeann Mamó rud ar bith faoi chúrsaí faisin. Nuair a thagann geansaí gránna

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Skyborn Sinead O'Hart

Skyborn

The circus has seen better days, but for Bastjan it’s home. He will do anything he can to save it, even if it means participating

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Up on the Mountain

Up on the mountain we followed a small path through the woods … So begins the latest story from the award-winning author and illustrator Peter

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UNA WOODS A Spooktacular Place To Be

A Spooktacular Place to be

A spooky bus tour around Ireland, with our favourite Dublin Vampire! He travels to well-known places all over the country, including St. Michan’s church (where

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A Field Guide to Leaflings

Welcome to the world of Leaflings, the secret guardians of the trees. Among the branches and roots of some of our planet’s most important inhabitants,

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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

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There’s a Ghost in this House

A captivating and utterly unique picturebook with interactive, transparent pages about a girl who lives in a haunted house from world-renowned artist Oliver Jeffers. A

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All The Money in the World

Fifteen-year-old Penny longs for something better. Better than a small, damp flat. Better than her bullying classmates and uninterested teachers. Better than misery and poverty

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I Don’t Want to go to School

It’s Mouse’s first day of school, and she is so nervous. She can’t eat her cereal, and she wonders what the children will be like.

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Rabbit & Bear: A Bad King is a Sad Thing

Gorgeously illustrated and with a classic feel, this is a brilliantly funny story of a rabbit and a bear … and how to defeat an

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The Kidds of Summerhill

How far will a young girl go to keep her family together? It is spring 1945. Orphaned Nancy Kidd has a lot on her plate

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A Short Hopeful Guide to Climate Change

This is the story of humans and fire and how we’ve changed the world. It’s a story about our civilisation and our environment, about wildfires

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Winds of Change

Ireland, 2020. As Garrett traces his family history, he discovers that some secrets just can’t be kept. Ireland, 1880s. Can three children stay friends when

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Tabitha Plimtock and the Edge of the World

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The Very Dangerous Sisters of Indigo McCloud

Indigo McCloud’s sister Peaches is every adult’s favourite child: pretty, golden-haired, polite and charming. But the children of Blunt know better: Peaches and her sisters

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Monster Hunting for Beginners

Monster Hunting isn’t as easy as it looks. And Jack should know. Because an ogre has just appeared in his garden and tried to EAT

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Morgana Mage in the Robotic Age

Morgana loves robots and longs to attend robotics school in the city. But she’s a witch, living in a magical woodland community: the closest she

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Puffling and the Egg

A helpful little puffling lives on Skellig Michael When she finds a lost egg, she must get it back to its nest. But the wind

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The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street

When their father’s business fails, Eliza and Jonty Kane move to a tenement flat in Dublin city, number 16 Henrietta Street. From a crowded tenement

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Football Spirit

Eoin Madden and his friends are back at school. After three years on the Junior Cup rugby team, there’s time to play soccer for a

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Aldrin Adams and the Cheese Nightmares

Aldrin Adams is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary superpower. When he eats cheese, just before he goes to sleep at night, he can enter

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The Shadows of Rookhaven

It is the time of The Great Configuration, a once in a hundred years event. Family and monsters descend on Rookhaven from all over the

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Wulfie Saves the Planet

Libby has only three days to create the best ever eco-project for school. So the last thing she needs is Wulfie showing off his ‘super’

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No Ordinary Joe

All sorts of labels are put on my brotherbut that doesn’t mean he’s any one thing.At the end of the day, they’re just words.A pile

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Great Irish Sports Stars: Jason Sherlock

All-Ireland Winner, 7-time Leinster Football Champion, Represented Ireland in U-21 Soccer and Basketball. Jason Sherlock’s journey from sports-mad boy to Hill 16 icon wasn’t a

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Girls Play Too: Book 2

Irish sportswomen continue to make headlines! Whether it is Kellie Harrington’s dominance in the boxing ring, or Rachael Blackmore’s phenomenal success in 2021, as the

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Finn’s First Song

Squeeeak … Thwop … Thwop … Dwoooooerrrp! Dad sings his magical whale songs to Mum and baby Finn, far, far away across the huge ocean.

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The Great Irish Politics Book

Join David McCullagh as he guides you through all the things that make our country work. Why do we have a president and a Taoiseach?

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Here Be Dragons

This book is about a knight on a mission: to find and slay a dragon. The other knights have told him that there’s no such

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The Same But Different

A young girl doesn’t like it when other children laugh at her for having brown skin and fuzzy hair. She doesn’t like being different. But

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Big Dance

As Pippa watches her friends express themselves through their special dance moves, she wonders if she will ever find the dance in herself. With gentle

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Hom

Hom is the last of his kind. I don’t know what kind of creature he is, and nobody knows he exists… apart from me. When

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Gairdín Mháire na mBláth

Bronntanas breá samhraidh is ea Gairdín Mháire na mBláth, an saothar is déanaí ó Tatyana Feeney. Scéal aoibhinn cairdis agus comhluadair! Leabhar é seo a

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Look, Puppy!

Hello, puppy! We don’t know where you came from. We don’t know what kind of dog you are. We’ve been waiting and waiting for you

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The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire

An unmissable paraquel to the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, The Skulduggery Pleasant Grimoire is at once a thrilling recap of the books so far, a reference

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A Little Book About Justice

Justice can be a difficult thing to understand, even for a grownup. So give your kid a head start on the conversation and help them

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The Philosophy Resistance Squad

Milo is thrilled to be starting at the country’s fanciest, shiniest, most prestigious school. But it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on.

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My Little Album of Ireland

Name all the things you can see around the Island of Ireland! Discover nature on the Wild Atlantic Way, dig for treasure at Trim Castle,

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Skulduggery Pleasant: Dead or Alive

Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Omen return in the 14th and penultimate novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series – and their most epic test yet… In a

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Rescuing Titanic

Deep in the dark North Atlantic night, the majestic ocean liner Titanic strikes ice and quickly begins to sink. It radiates out an “S-O-S” distress

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Eoinín

Eoinín has a beautiful new kite. But making it fly is a tricky business! Little ones will love helping Eoinín in this fun, interactive adventure.

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My Little Album of Dublin

Name all the things you can see around Dublin’s fair city! Measure yourself against the Spire on O’Connell Street, spot seals at the seaside, zoom

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Lily’s Dream

The further adventures of Lily: life as a maid in Lissadell House is always interesting, but with her friendship with Maeve under strain, a war

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Maybe

A trio of misbehaving, mango-loving monkeys have a close call as the creator of Don’t Worry, Little Crab gives readers a taste of vicarious mischief. Three little

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The Fowl Twins: Get What They Deserve

Twins Myles and Beckett, Artemis Fowl’s younger brothers, return in their third and most outrageous adventure yet. For almost two years, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye has

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The Last Seaweed Pie

Written by Wenda Shurety, Illustrated by Paddy Donnelly The Sea-ple live in the ocean and the Tree-ple live in the jungle. When the Tree-ple start

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Ó Am go hAm

Everyone in Aoife’s house is obsessed with History- everyone except Aoife! She does not understand why her Mother spends all day at the old local

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The Vanishing Lake

Something mysterious is happening at Grandad’s lake. There are days the lake is beautiful, shimmering, and full. And then there are other days . .

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Wild Child – A Journey Through Nature

Join brilliant young naturalist Dara McAnulty – winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for his book Diary of a Young Naturalist – on a nature walk and

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Mr Spicebag

Be warned, Reader, this book isn’t about a normal spice bag, nor is it about a normal boy. Quite the opposite. This book is about the Spice Bag, and

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Bad Panda

Are you sick of being utterly adorable?Tired of being cuddled and hugged?Fed up of having your head confused for your bottom because you just so

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Stick Boy

It’s tough fitting in when you’re born to stick out! From the moment Stick Boy and his family move to Little Town, there is way

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NICOLA COLTON A Dublin Christmas cover (1)

A Dublin Christmas

To Orla, Christmas means Gran, so when it looks like Gran won’t make it this year, everything feels a lot less festive. And with Christmas

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A Hug for You

Nothing warms us up quite like a hug, but what can we do when we can’t be together? This is the story of a new

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