If you build it, they will come: creating a new online children’s book festival
Award-winning children’s writer Sarah Webb explains the how and why of WonderFest
Missed milestone: How will schools mark their pupils’ final days?
Schools are planning virtual graduation celebrations for their sixth class students
Covid-19: Calls to let sixth class students say their goodbyes
Celebrities join campaign to send messages to pupils missing out on the end of primary school
Irish children’s books enjoying a new ‘golden age’
Demand for children’s literature has skyrocketed following success of likes of Colfer and Shan
Bringing real world issues to young adult novels
Patrick Ness fell into writing young adult fiction by accident, but he’s had huge success in a genre that’s barely a decade old
Who’s reading YA? Everyone at DeptCon1, that’s who
Claire Hennessy reports on last weekend’s inaugural Irish YA convention, a fan event but one rich in debate and author insights
Children’s Books: Once Upon a Place, The Boy Who Fell off The Mayflower and The Day The Crayons Came Home
Two books showcase PJ Lynch’s superb illustrations, and the zany saga of the crayons continues, writes Robert Dunbar
Choice of real and imagined worlds for young readers
Derek Landy, Sheena Wilkinson and Ursula Dubosarsky have new offerings
Literary listings: Irish head for Edinburgh, and Library Voices at Dun Laoghaire
Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books
Commissioner to review policing of Leinster House protest
O’Sullivan tells committee policing response to protest was ‘balanced and proportionate’
Garda Commissioner to face questions on protest response
Video footage of anti-water charges campaigners being studied by investigators
Derek Landy signs book deal for new Demon Road trilogy
Skulduggery Pleasant author has sold 5 millions copies worldwide. First of new series is due out in September
The story behind Beyond the Stars
Sarah Webb explains how she persuaded the cream of Irish children’s writers and illustrators to combine on an anthology to raise funds for Fighting Words
Skulduggery Pleasant: my part in his salvation
Olivia Spring was one of 250 Derek Landy fans who took to the streets of Dublin a week ago in a role-playing adventure to mark the end of the bestselling series
Amazon, the company that changed how we shop
Twenty years ago, a former Wall Street trader sold a book over the internet. With this first sale on Amazon, Jeff Bezos changed the world
A new kind of thriller for John O’Shea and Joey O’Brien
Soccer stars read a good game for literacy project
In CBI’s good books – just not in its excellent books
Children’s Books Ireland will shortly announce this year’s winners of its annual awards. The shortlist suggests that excellence is becoming harder to find
Literary Twitterati: Selina Guinness turned inside out
Our weekly round-up of recent literary happenings on Twitter
Young Sherlock Holmes thrills Galway pupils
Author Andrew Lane meets schoolchildren in Dubray Bookshop on Shop Street during his ‘knife-edge’ Young Sherlock Holmes tour
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