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Children’s writer & artist 💫 ELSETIME / THE CHESTNUT ROASTER / THE LAST BOY (Sept ‘24). Wonderlarker. Agent: Faith O’Grady @LisaRichardsLtd

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Eve McDonnell 💫 THE LAST BOY (Sept) 💫

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7 months

Can I tell you a story? This day 149 years ago, a chimney sweep ‘climbing boy’ got stuck inside a chimney. His death was a catalyst for change, and marked a shift in attitudes towards child labour. He was important, but forgotten. His name was George Brewster. #TheLastBoy 🧵1/4

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4 months

Found a drop of teal 🩵 Considered the 6th rarest seaglass colour and quite likely belonged to an ink bottle from the late 1800s. A little message from the universe to dip my pen and keep writing 🙌

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Today, I found purple* sea-glass. That is all. * Practically non-existent, stuff of pipe-dreams, mythical even** and over 100 years old (according to people who know stuff). ** ok I have a tendency to exaggerate when giddy, but p u r p l e !

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1 year ago today, Magpie the crow flew out of my heart and into bookshops! It’s been a brilliant year 🤗 To celebrate, like & retweet for a chance to #WIN a signed copy of #Elsetime & a Treasure Chain talisman of mudlarked treasures for good luck 💛 Ends 24/9 UK & Ire #GIVEAWAY

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2 years

🌰📚🌰 GIVE-AWAY! 🌰📚🌰 It’s #WorldBookDay Week! Would you like to #Win a signed copy of The Chestnut Roaster (9+), a set of bookmarks, postcard & limited edition poster? RT & follow for a chance to win! Winner 6th Mar, UK & Ireland. GOOD LUCK! 💫🎉📚 #Giveaway @EveryWithWords

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3 years

“Put tinfoil on the kitchen counter to stop your cat jumping up,” they said. Covered the entire counter - she positively bathed in it. Tried a smaller bit, it failed. The bits are getting smaller & she now jumps up specially to sit on HER bit of tinfoil. Every darned time 😼😁

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2 years

This is what a writer looks like when their dream comes true! 😃🤩💫 @thetimes CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK! Thank you so much, @aoconnell 🤗🧡🌰 #TheChestnutRoaster @EveryWithWords @hollydrawsinink @EwaHaremska

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2 years

'The Chestnut Roaster @Eve_Mc_Donnell an unforgettable Paris adventure. Fantastique! Thanks @aoconnell for picking #TheChestnutRoaster @thetimes Book of the week

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10 months

I want to bottle this moment! I’m so grateful to the librarians who championed #TheChestnutRoaster & nominated it for a Carnegie Medal. I can’t tell you what this means. Thank you! 🙏 Congrats, everyone - winners, all! @EveryWithWords @carnegiemedals #YotoCarnegies24 #AuthorDream

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📚✨ We're thrilled to unveil the nominees for the #YotoCarnegies24 . These incredible authors & illustrators are making waves in the world of books for children and young people. How many of the 129 nominated books have you read? 📖❤️ Explore the lists:

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Wrapping nine for a nine year old - her first foray into #MG books, and I’ve picked some of my absolute favourites. Oh the places she will go, the *nine* lives she will live! 💫✨

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@silverpebble I adore your photos and drawings, Emma, and I’m so sorry you are suffering right now. Sending you a photo of my pebble collection, many of which found while searching for happiness 🧡

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To all the AMAZING authors out there recording quick* videos and those lucky enough to FINALLY get to meet young readers in person, may your words flow and your heart burst with joy this #WorldBookDay *no such thing, give us strength 😅 #Bloopers 🤪

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6 years

7 yo discovered my copy of #TheLostWords by @RobGMacfarlane & @JackieMorrisArt . She caressed the pictures with her fingertips, told them she loved them and instinctively broke into song as she read the words. Magic!

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4 years

🎄ONLY 14 MORE SLEEPS🎄 so it’s time for an #Elsetime GIVEAWAY! 💫🥳 Like & Retweet - one lucky duck will win a signed copy of Elsetime & an Elsetime poster pack! Ends midnight Mon 14 Dec, UK & Ireland. As Needle in Elsetime would do, I’m sprinkling good fortune from above!🤞

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🎉🖤 COVER REVEAL! 🖤🎉 Hold on to your hats! @eibhliscarcione 's #MG WELCOME TO DEAD TOWN, RAVEN MCKAY is coming Jun 1st with @EveryWithWords . Delighted to share its THRILLING cover by @EwaHaremska 🪶 There's a review copy up for grabs! RT for a chance to #WIN ! #RavenMcKay 1/3

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‘It’s not even that good, mom,’ she (13yo) said

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🌰 🌰 🌰🌰🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰 🌰🌰🌰 🌰 🌰 THE CHESTNUT ROASTER IS ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST BOOKS OF YEAR! 😃😭 @kittyempire666 , @GuardianBooks , thank you so much! @EveryWithWords @hollydrawsinink @EwaHaremska

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The best children’s books of 2022

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I WROTE A STORY! 💫🤗 It's about a girl called Piaf. Her name means ‘little sparrow’, and when she was born, she was wrapped in a handkerchief and placed in a drawer. No-one as small as a bird could survive. But she did. Little Piaf has a power – a superpower, even…

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3 years

📢 COVER REVEAL! 📢 New from the author of Elsetime, @Eve_Mc_Donnell 🌰💫 THE CHESTNUT ROASTER 💫🌰 Cover art: @Hollydrawsinink Published: 27 Oct '22 by @EveryWithWords . Pre-order: 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 #Paris #MG #Kidlit #ChooseBookshops

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I’ve pinched myself and it’s real: Thrilled and SO grateful to @artscouncil_ie for awarding me a Literature Bursary Award so I can work on my next children’s book! 🙏 Their financial support and encouragement is simply priceless! 💫💛

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3 years

Spiderweb, or portal to a magical world?

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2 years

H🌰🌰RAY! THE CHESTNUTS ARE FULLY ROASTED!! It's the official publication day of #TheChestnutRoaster ! 💫🎉 We ate all the macarons earlier this month in @HalfwayUpBooks 🇮🇪 and today we get to celebrate again with a fun bookshop tour of LONDON! 🇬🇧 (1/3)

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Celebrating #TheChestnutRoaster already going to reprint (😃 omg!) a few short weeks after publication day with a snapshot of the joy I’ve had working with booksellers, librarians, teachers, reviewers & young readers. MERCI - I’m SO grateful to you all! 🤗🙏 @EveryWithWords 1/2

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4 years

WHOA! 😃 What a feeling, holding my little book for the first time! Thank you, @EveryWithWords , @TBP_agency & @hollyoven . #Elsetime is coming September 17th. #GoodThingsComeToThoseWhoPreorder 😘

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‘Who wants to be just another grey pebble like all the rest?’ I 💛 row 4, pebble 6. You? 🤗

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Omg! I DID IT! I finally wrote ‘The End’. Book 3 was already written in the stars, but I felt I had to write it down on paper. It truly stole my heart 🧡😭💫

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1 year

I made a wish and it came true! 💫🥳 Beyond excited to announce that I am now represented by Faith O’Grady of the @LisaRichardsLtd Agency. Writing for children is the best job in the world and I’m so happy to have the wise and wonderful Faith by my side

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It’s the anniversary of my mum’s passing - each year, when we meet up to mark the day, she brings wild, unexpected weather, just to let us know she knows. This was today 🧡

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6 years

JOY! I accepted an offer of representation from the superb @josephine_hayes @TBP_agency . When it happened, I was dumbstruck & ran from their offices to a tiny park down the road where I sat under a tree. At my foot, I found a feather (mum?) & gold ring (as my MC does). MAGICAL💫

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5 months

Sunday #seaglass haul 🐣😍

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4 months

Aurora & Plough from the sunny southeast of Ireland 🙌

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2 years

It’s the #BookElves2022 grand finale today & the elves are celebrating all the brilliant #IrishBooks we are so lucky to have! I hope you found a book or two from the fab recommendations over the past week. All the candy canes go to Queen Elf, @sarahwebbishere 🧡 #ChooseBookshops

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10 months

Wishers & believers, this time every year our planet passes through a ring of dust left by a comet that orbits our sun every 33 yrs. Sometimes it brings a meteor shower, sometimes a storm. In 1833, the night sky was more white than black with 100,000 shooting stars each hour🧵1/2

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3 years

“If this doesn’t get him noticed, nothing will.” Just WOW 🐟🌍

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This is the Japanese Puffer Fish - one of #nature 's greatest artists. To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief. Nature is more amazing than we will ever know. Protect it in all its forms. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #rewilding #BuildBackBetter

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Author-in-shock pose! My boook! It’s in @Hodges_Figgis 😃🧡🌰 @EveryWithWords

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2 years

My author copies arrived! I am ECSTATIC!! @hollydrawsinink has done it again - I adore the cover! That gold! 🤩 Ewa Beniak-Haremska’s internal illustrations - *swoon*. Thank you, @EveryWithWords , for creating something so beautiful for my story 🧡 OUT OCTOBER! 🙏 @artscouncil_ie

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3 years

A few of my favourite things 💛 #TreasureChain #Elsetime

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4 years

ARE WE THERE YET?! ARE WE THERE YET?! 🤣 Only 3 more sleeps to go before #ELSETIME is published!!! Like Glory Bobbin in the story, I am feeling a *little* impatient, so here are a few fun facts about Elsetime while we wait! 😊 1/7

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The joy of children’s books! London is buzzing tonight at @theweekjunior Book Awards. Good luck, everyone! #TWJBookAwards

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3 years

Found some very strange pebbles on the beach 🎃😱 Happy Halloween! 👻

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2 years

I celebrated #TheChestnutRoaster being picked as the Times Children’s Book of The Week (🤗😭) with a mini #Dublin bookshop tour! First stop was @DubrayBooks Grafton St. Great chats & the warmest of welcomes - thank you, Emer! I signed some books & worked up an appetite… 😄 (1/2)

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WET PAINT! ‘Time Out’ (oil on board). Handed this one over to the boy’s mum today and her smile made all those wave-painting days so worth it 😁

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TODAY’S VIEW THROUGH THE KITCHEN WINDOW WHILE THE KETTLE BOILS (and you betcha I’m shouting - look at this beauty!!!!) Great Spotted Woodpecker! @IrishBirds @BirdWatchIE @Irishwildlife 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

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2 years

On this night, 95yrs ago, The Great Flood of London happened. 14 souls lost their lives when snowmelt water met with a ferocious storm surge by the @Tate . Little was written about it, so I wrote #Elsetime . Read more here: #London #History @EveryWithWords

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It was going to happen 😂

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☄️💫COVER REVEAL!💫☄️ THANK YOU, @hollydrawsinink , you captured the spirit of #TheLastBoy so beautifully! Out 12 Sept @EveryWithWords #MG #STEM #HistoricalFiction *whispers* Good things come to those who preorder 🤗 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🧵1/4

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COVER REVEAL: How gorgeous is this? The cover for @Eve_Mc_Donnell The Last Boy. Gorgeous art by @hollydrawsinink . Inspired by the story of George Brewster, whose tragic death led to a change in labour law. Check out the trailer. (pub Sept) EXCITING!!

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GO OUTSIDE NOW! 🤩

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#Seaglass 🧡

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2 years

I had the time of my life at yesterday’s launch of #TheChestnutRoaster ! Huge hugs to everyone who came along and to @HalfwayUpBooks and @EveryWithWords for giving me the best memories 🧡🥰🌰

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WHOOP! WHOOP! 100 days to go #Elsetime 😀💃

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😃 SOMEONE PINCH ME! 😃 I am SO excited that @EveryWithWords will be publishing my middle-grade story #Elsetime in 2020! Finding my treasure of an Agent, @josephine_hayes @TBP_agency , and the thrill of hearing Mikka’s perfect vision for Elsetime were magical moments for me 💫

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Everything with Words signs @Eve_Mc_Donnell debut:

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I get so much joy watching @LumpyandFriends 💚💛❤️

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Mr Lumpy & Friends

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The Nut Fairy was late home and there were three Hungry Badgers waiting for her on the decking (Mr & Mrs Lumpy and Little Humbug). A bit of grape lobbing, a bit of being a Badger Bouncer 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾❤️

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Some years, Mother Nature lets chestnuts fall earlier than planned! 😃🌰 #TheChestnutRoaster is already dropping in bookshops! It’s the 1st of October today, so I hope friends in Ireland will come celebrate its launch at @HalfwayUpBooks in Greystones 🎉 The best part is…(1/4)

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Did you ever see a happier looking writer?! Not surprised he was beaming - the love for @padraig_kenny and #Stitch was in the realm of make-believe this evening at his book launch in @DubrayBooks Grafton St. Huge congratulations, Pádraig & @GrainneClear @WalkerBooksUK 🎉🤗

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It’s #BastilleDay , a day of national joy celebrating all we love about France. Little Piaf in #TheChestnutRoaster had the longest queues at her roaster each 14 July so, to celebrate, #WIN a chestnut made by me with clay, acrylic & amour 💙🤍❤️ RT & follow by 18th. @EveryWithWords

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4 years

Genuine question: could today get any better? @BHHillustration , for crying out loud! #ORFEIA by @Joannechocolat !!! Pinch me.

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4 years

Congratulations, the winner of my #ORFEIA print is @Eve_Mc_Donnell , please DM me so I arrange postage to you. I will be giving away another print at the end of Sept so keep watching and keep following❤️❤️

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#TheLastBoy out 12 Sept, @EveryWithWords . Cover art: @hollydrawsinink 💙 With huge thanks to @artscouncil_ie whose funding enabled me to research and write this book.

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A magical day! #TheChestnutRoaster @EveryWithWords @WaterstonesTraf @WaterstonesPicc

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💛💛WIN!💛💛 #Elsetime was inspired by The Great Flood of London on the night of 6th Jan, 1928. I wrote about it here: To mark its anniversary, win a signed copy of Elsetime - please retweet & follow to enter! Uk & Ireland by Sun 10th Jan. Good luck! 🤗

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Making treasures from beachcombed bits and bobs is a wonderful way to spend the day 😀 Find out more about my online workshops here! #Elsetime

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BOOK LAUNCH NEWS! I’d love to celebrate #TheChestnutRoaster with you! 🧡 There’ll be MACARONS! MARSHMALLOWS!! And FIZZYPOP!!! All squished into @HalfwayUpBooks in gorgeous #Greystones 🇮🇪🌰🥳 Psst, share this with your book-y friends & the raspberry macarons are yours 😋

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Up with the cuckoo to catch a train to #Tralee ! I’m joining a brilliantly bonkers bus full of authors & illustrators bringing the joy of creativity to schools, libraries, & bookshops along the Wild Atlantic Way 💫😀 @LaureatenanOg @PForde123 🧡 @KidsBooksIrel #WholeWildWorld 🚌💨

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Found a #Jay feather today - a sign of protection and a token of good luck 😀🤞

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I can’t even begin to express how grateful I am for this opportunity - it’s going to make an enormous difference to me, not to mention my WIP. So excited to meet everyone and soak up the creativity that oozes from the walls of @TyroneGuthrie ! Thank you so much, @KidsBooksIrel 🙏

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We are thrilled to announce the recipients of this year's @TyroneGuthrie bursaries! These artists will attend a week-long residency thanks to author Rod Smith, @roscommoncoco , @laureatenanog (via @artscouncil_ie @ArtsCouncilNI & @dcediy ) & @TyroneGuthrie .

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4 years

HEY! Have you ever found something – a shard of pottery or rusty spoon, perhaps – and wish you could hear its story? How old is it? Is it lost, or was it thrown away? Did it witness something peculiar? Or did it sit idle on a shelf, soaking up secrets? #ElsetimeStory 1/5

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2 years

#AllTheWayHome from #CBIConf22 What a happy weekend 🤗🧡

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3 years

🐳 AHOY aspiring children’s writers! Does your story idea have a thimble-full of fantasy or does it bring readers to curious worlds? 💫 I’d love you to join me at #WonderFest2021 on 21 Nov for tips on writing fantasy & time-travel novels #writingcommmunity

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2 years

GERMAN FRIENDS! 🇩🇪 Die Brücke nach Morgen (The Bridge to Tomorrow, aka #Elsetime ), translated by brilliant @fancydancer153 🤗💛, is out June 3rd. Cover art by Alexandra Helm. I can’t wait for you to time-travel with Needle & Glory and their very clever crow! @Edelkidsbooks

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3 years

Potted cat 🐈‍⬛

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11 months

Enormous congrats to the team behind this new collection of children’s poems written by poets of old and new (go, @rurooie !). Edited by @sarahwebbishere & @lucindajwriter and published by @LittleIslandBks . The illustrations by @whackochacko bring it all together so beautifully 🤩

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4 years

Set your alarm before you feast your eyes on this because I promise you will get lost in its bluebells, soft petals and butterfly wings 💫 It now hangs above my desk (that’s the end of me getting any work done!) SWOON! Thank you, @BHHillustration 💛💛💛 @Joannechocolat #Orfeia

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10 months

Tomorrow, I begin edits on my something new 🙂💫

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7 months

My desk for the week. I’d heard so much about the @TyroneGuthrie centre that I’d created a vivid image of it in my mind but NOTHING prepared me for two things - its magic (I swear I can touch it) and the warmest welcome ever💫 Going to make some magic of my own @KidsBooksIrel , 🙏

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5 years

🛎DING! DING! DING!🛎 ELSETIME Cover Reveal Time!! Crazy-happy to reveal the cover of my debut MG #Elsetime ! Cover design & internal illustrations by the mega-talented @hollyoven 💫🙌 Can’t wait for you to meet Needle, Glory & Magpie the crow! Out 18th June by @EveryWithWords

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1 year

The AMAZING @hollydrawsinink won two(!!) prestigious @ABCoverD Academy of British Cover Design Awards last night, including the Children’s 6-12 category with the phenomenal cover of #TheChestnutRoaster . 🎉🤩 I am in awe of every cover she creates - huge congrats, dear Holly! 🤗

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3 years

Today, I caught my dog sleeping with the local stray 😻🐈‍⬛🐕😻

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4 years

CLINK CLINK CLINK! IT'S #ELSETIME ! If you could close your eyes for a minute & imagine we are all tiddly at Elsetime’s book launch! That’s me you can see, standing at the podium, all wobbly with nerves, & it looks like I’d like to say a few words (I’ll be quick, promise! 🤣) 1/7

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3 years

I ♥️ you too, Universe! #seaglass

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4 years

LOOK AT MY HAPPY FACE 😂 It’s Elsetime! In the @irishexaminer !! Thank you, Emmet Arrigan, for a wonderful review. Publishes 17th Sept @EveryWithWords @LauraSmythePR #GoodThingsComeToThoseWhoPreorder ! 😘🙏💋

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2 years

"We call them children's books, but really, they're books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes no-one." @whatSFSaid 👌💫🧡

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Foyles Bookshop

2 years

Fresh from Tyger being crowned our Children's Book of the Year 2022, we asked @whatSFSaid to tell us more about what brought his latest @DFB_storyhouse masterpiece into being (plus book recommendations). Read the whole article:

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2 years

Only (!!) 200 days to go until #TheChestnutRoaster publishes with @EveryWithWords ! Roll on October! Until then, clay chestnuts will just have to do 🌰🤗 (*little whisper* your local bookshop will gladly preorder - my favs include @HalfwayUpBooks , @rshipbshop & @KenilworthBook ) 💛

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My #wisteria has reached its teenage years - Mid-fade-long-fringe hair, only comes out once a year, and will soon leave all its bits on the floor for mammy to pick up. Love it 😍

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4 years

Hooray! 🤩 So thrilled #Elsetime has been shortlisted for the Cumbria #Spellbinding2021 Book Award alongside some cracking reads! Happy reading everyone! 💛

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4 years

Sooo..only a week to go until schools go back and what better way to celebrate than with the launch of our KS3 Spellbinding Book Award. Congrats to all our shortlisted authors - let the reading begin! 📚😊🎉 #spellbinding2021 #bookaward #cumbria

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1 year

The crew in @wexlibraries #Gorey are full-on, top-notch champions of #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks - check out their display of homegrown children’s books in their library. If your young reader is looking for the next best read, they’ll guide you! Bravo, Gorey Library! @IrishKidsBooks

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1 year

🌰🎉🌰🎉🌰🎉🌰 The Week Junior Book Award shortlist is out & #TheChestnutRoaster is there for Cover of the Year! I count my lucky stars every time I look at its design by the amazing @hollydrawsinink 🧡 Thank you, @theweekjunior @thebookseller & Bookily crews Pls VOTE! #TWJAwards

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🥁 Drum roll please! We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the very first The Week Junior Book Awards! We hope you'll join us in celebrating the talent, creativity, care and sheer passion of the publishers, authors and illustrators who are on it!

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4 years

SOME NEWS! @EveryWithWords wisely moved #Elsetime ’s publication date to 17 Sept 2020! Of course, we can only hope that our world is free by then, and WHAT A PARTY WE SHALL HAVE! In the meantime, I guess all we can do is go with the flow... Stay well x

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Going with the Flow…

In Elsetime, treasure-hunting mudlark, Needle Luckett, wears a hagstone – a stone with a hole – tied on a string around his neck. Folklore says that, if you are lucky enough to find such a rare and…

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🎉😀 HAPPY DAYS! 😃🎉 #TheChestnutRoaster has been shortlisted for the Redhill Academy Trust Children’s Book Award! Huge thanks to @TCA_LRC , & happy reading to your young readers - so many fab books! 🤗🌰 @hollydrawsinink @EwaHaremska @EveryWithWords @LisaRichardsLtd #RHATBA

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The Redhill Academy Trust Children's Book Award Shortlist Book 5 #TheChestnutRoaster @Eve_Mc_Donnell @hollydrawsinink @EveryWithWords @RedhillTrust #RHATBA

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Even the dog is wondering why I’m so giddy! Thank you, @IrishTimes @sarajkeating for a wonderful review of #Elsetime ! I’m tickled pink to be alongside all these wonderful authors and illustrators 🤩 @EveryWithWords @LauraSmythePR

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Today’s view from the kitchen window while the kettle boils 😀

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Check out @tanyasweeney ’s fab feature in today’s @Independent_ie about the #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks campaign and the wealth of Irish authors we have - beyond thrilled to see #Elsetime included with thanks to Tanya & @HalfwayUpBooks 🥰🙏 So many brilliant Irish books out there 🤩

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It’s #IrishAstronomyWeek ! Brewster in #TheLastBoy is gifted with numbers & uses them to predict the 1866 Great Meteor Storm. Why? So he can wish on every star to be last climbing boy sweep ever. Wishes are the tiny seeds of HUGE change, so look to the stars this week & WISH! 1/2

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2 years

Bravo! A cracking 2 pages of children’s books recommendations in the @irishexaminer ! Thanks @eibhliscarcione for including #TheChestnutRoaster in your Best of 2022 Roundup 🙏🧡🎉🌰 @EveryWithWords

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4 years

This was the most special moment I’ve had on my writing (& festival organising!) journey! #Elsetime was selected as Book of the Year by both @HalfwayUpBooks 💛 & @bridgebookshop 💛 at a #WonderFest2020 event where a *brilliance* of booksellers gave magical advice! @EveryWithWords

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One of the highlight recommendations from last night's event with the booksellers for #wonderfest2020 . Congratulations @Eve_Mc_Donnell A smash hit!

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The driving seat for a host of online events over the coming days for #ChildrensBookFestival month in Ireland 🇮🇪 Lights, camera, butterflies-of-excitement, action! 💫

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It has just arrived in the post and OMG I CANNOT BRING MYSELF TO OPEN IT!!!! The anticipation is beyond delicious so I want to hold on for a little while longer*. #BeWild by @Hopewrites & @DanielEgneus 💛💛💛 @KidsBloomsbury *that’s long enough. Going in!!!

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I spent the weekend in Roman Londinium, following Vita’s journey from riches to rags as she fights to survive Gladiator school & the toughest trials of her life. Brilliant children’s historical fiction! Can still hear the clang of swords & roars of spectators! Bravo, @allysherick

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2 years

The wind beneath #CBIConf22 wings 💃🧡📚 #AllTheWayHome Go Bob! @gutterbookshop

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2 years

I’ve been bed-bound for a few days but oh, the places I have been, the things I have seen. This story is epic, it’s powerful and harrowing and infinitely beautiful. There’s no way a mere mortal created it, but then again I’m not sure @whatSFSaid is a mere mortal 🤗🔥🐯🧡

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I’m not sure these two have stopped smiling since their recent wins at the @AnPostIBAS Awards. I popped in for a smile too and to sprinkle some Christmas joy on @Conor_Merriman ’s fab window art. @HalfwayUpBooks - Bookshop of the Year 🎉 What a happy place to be!

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4 years

EVERYONE👏NEEDS👏TO👏READ👏THIS👏BOOK! Amazing, @BooksandChokers & @_KnightsOf !

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3 years

Probably just a pebble

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4 years

Thank you, Universe, for the binocular hagstone. I can see clearly now 🤩 “Look through it and you might see another world!” #Elsetime

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