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Review: Tatty

Christine Dwyer Hickey Tatty New Island Books, February 2020 Paperback, 208PP, €11.95 ISBN 9781848407619 Fiction Review by Joanna Geoghegan. Christine Dwyer Hickey’s semi-autobiographical novel, Tatty, was originally published in 2004. This year, it was rereleased with a spellbinding introduction by Dermot Bolger, and has been chosen as the Dublin One City One Book title for 2020. SetContinue reading “Review: Tatty”

Review: Hello! A Counting Book of Kindnesses

Hollis Kurman (author) Barroux (illustrator) Hello! A Counting Book of Kindnesses Otter-Barry Books, July 2020 Hardback, 32PP, £8.99 ISBN: 9781913074999 Picturebook, 0-4 years Review by Joanna Geoghegan. Hello! A Counting Book of Kindnesses is a beautiful story about a mother and her three children who are forced to flee from a war-torn country. Along the way,Continue reading “Review: Hello! A Counting Book of Kindnesses”

Review: My Friend Earth

Patricia McLachlan Illustrated by Francesca Sanna My Friend Earth Chronicle Books, February 2020 Hardback, 44 PP, £12.99 Picturebook, 0-4, 5-7 years Review by Joanna Geoghegan. Within the pages of this book, the narrator tells the story of their friend, Earth, from the moment she wakes up from a winter nap, to her next naptime theContinue reading “Review: My Friend Earth”

Review: Chasing Ghosts: An Arctic Adventure

Nicola Pierce Chasing Ghosts: An Arctic Adventure The O’Brien Press, March 2020 Paperback, 320PP, €8.99 ISBN: 9781788490177 Middle Grade Review by Joanna Geoghegan. Chasing Ghosts: An Arctic Adventure is a gripping new tale by Nicola Pierce that follows two series of true events that unfolded thousands of miles apart yet are inextricably linked. At theContinue reading “Review: Chasing Ghosts: An Arctic Adventure”

Review: Eating Chips with Monkey

Mark Lowery Eating Chips with Monkey Piccadilly Press, April 2020 Paperback, 257PP, £6.99 ISBN: 9781848127371 Middle Grade. Review by Joanna Geoghegan. When ten-year-old Daniel suffers a terrible accident one night, he loses all memory of his life before the incident and becomes a shadow of his former self, speaking to no one except for hisContinue reading “Review: Eating Chips with Monkey”