New schools ‘struggling’ to fill libraries due to cut in books grant
Campaign launched to reinstate primary school library fund abolished 15 years ago
All shining in the spring: Teaching children about grief when another child dies
Lots of children sadly experience a death in their family that is harder to explain and much more difficult to process
Won’t somebody please think of the children?
YA Fiction: Yasmin Rahman’s All The Things We Never Said, Meredith Russo’s Birthday and more
Irish children’s books enjoying a new ‘golden age’
Demand for children’s literature has skyrocketed following success of likes of Colfer and Shan
Girl power: how the new feminism has embraced children’s literature
From picture books to YA fiction, it’s a great time to be a girl who loves to read
Write stuff: How authors are boosting creativity in the classroom
An education scheme is helping children see writers as living, breathing people rather than mythical beats
New fund to provide libraries for Irish schools
Memorial fund is named after children’s literature champion Robert Dunbar
Children’s and YA fiction: a bumper crop for the ‘middle grade’
Reviews of titles by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Siobhán Parkinson, Judi Curtin, Paul Gamble and Peter Bunzl, plus Harry Potter ebooks from JK Rowling
Me & My Money: Siobhan Parkinson, publisher
Investing in shares would come very low on my list of fun ways to spend an afternoon”
Happy 5th birthday, Little Island
Siobhán Parkinson traces the history, successes, challenges and ambitions of the children’s publisher she helped found in 2010 as it launches its 50th book
A tough brief: selecting the first Laureate for Irish Fiction
Passionate, relentlessly energetic and possessing a collegial focus: ahead of the announcement of the inaugural laureate in The Irish Times, the selection panel discuss what they are looking for
The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
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
Who should become the first Laureate for Irish Fiction?
Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January
Remembering my grandmother: ‘She understood a child’s deep thirst for justice’
Eilís Dillon wrote almost 40 children’s books – now, 20 years after her death, it’s great to see her influence reflected on our modern bookshelves
Eoin Colfer is third Laureate na nÓg for children’s literature
Novelist ‘incredibly honoured and petrified’ to be taking on role
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