Once upon a place

Book 2015

Features six new poems by Irish poets alongside 11 new short 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 and In America.

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Children's poetry, Irish

Children's stories

Children's stories, Irish

English literature Irish authors

Ireland Juvenile fiction

Ireland Juvenile poetry

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Fiction Poetry Short stories

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ISBN:

9781910411377

Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents:

Gren's ghost / Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
The pumping station / Roddy Doyle
The cabin in the woods / Enda Wyley
The bear / John Connolly
Bus stop / Pat Boran
Abseiling or The dancing engineers / Siobhán Parkinson
Beautiful dawn / Paula Leyden
Embedded in my brain / Seamus Cashman
The ram king / Eoin Colfer
Snail pals / Geraldine Mills
Number 13 / Jim Sheridan
There and here / Jane Mitchell
The dirty river, Stillorgan / Mark Granier
Stream time / Oisin McGann
How to feed a stranger's donkey / Kate Newmann
The library cat / Sarah Webb
The world's greatest teen detective / Derek Landy

LCCN:

2015513841

Control Number:

2378908

Other Authors:

Colfer, Eoin, editor
Lynch, Patrick James, illustrator

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