Once upon a Place - Softcover

Colfer, Eoin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912417049 ISBN 13: 9781912417049

Publisher: Little Island, 2018

Synopsis

Laureate na nÓg Eoin Colfer, author of the bestselling Artemis Fowl series, has compiled a new anthology of stories and poems for children that focuses on the special link between story and place in Ireland. Lavish black-and-white charcoal illustrations by award-winning artist and picturebook illustrator P.J. Lynch will make this unique anthology a very beautiful object.

Once upon a Place features six new poems by Irish poets alongside stories from many of Ireland’s leading children’s writers including Roddy Doyle, Derek Landy and former Laureate na nÓg Siobhán Parkinson, as well as the first ever story for children by Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan, director of My Left Foot, The Field and In America. It will also feature new work by Eoin Colfer himself, along with Pat Boran, Seamus Cashman, John Connolly, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Mark Granier, Paula Leyden, Oisín McGann, Geraldine Mills, Jane Mitchell, Kate Newmann, Sarah Webb and Enda Wyley.

About this title

About the Author

Eoin Colfer's first book, Benny and Omar, was published in 1998. In 2001 the first Artemis Fowl book was published and resigned from teaching to concentrate full-time on writing. The Artemis Fowl series has since sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is now concluding with the final book The Last Guardian. In 2014 Eoin was chosen as the third Laureate na nOg. PJ Lynch is widely regarded as Ireland's finest illustrator and is Ireland's current Laureate na nOg. He has published more than twenty books over his career, among them the much-loved The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey and A Christmas Carol. He has won many awards, including the Mother Goose award and the ate Greenaway Medal (twice).

Review

Hardback edition chosen as a CLPE Book of the Year 2015. `A diverse and imaginative collection of short stories and poems takes readers on a journey around Ireland conducted by some of the country's best modern children's authors.' - CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) ; Chosen as one of the best traditional children's story anthologies by Julia Eccleshare in The Guardian. `All readers will know more about Ireland when they have read the stories than they knew at the beginning but they would also see that stories such as these are universal.' - Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian

Edition details

• Publisher: Little Island
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912417049
• ISBN 13: 9781912417049
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224