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When books cross borders
Bonjour! Little Island aspires to expand our own perspectives and those of our readers by publishing books in translation. A look at our catalogue reveals that we have published a dozen international...
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Books Create Waves: Little Island has had a (little) makeover
Dear friends and readers It’s been over a decade since Little Island first rose up out of the depths to appear on the horizon. A lot has changed since then, on the island and in the world, and so the...
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The Making of a Carousel Lantern
by Lucy Kelly-Desmond In this special guest blog post, author and illustrator Lucy Kelly-Desmond shares the inspiration for her book The Horse, the Stars, and the Road (out now) and how she created...
View ArticleRemembering Michael O’Brien
When a beloved figure in their eighties dies, family, friends and colleagues are left with a sense of loss and sadness. But when Michael O’Brien died last month, the publishing and children’s books...
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Hard at Play by Debbie Thomas
One of the best things about writing for children is writing with children, helping them to unlock their own creativity using words as the key. And it doesn’t have to be English words. Over the last...
View ArticleThe First Irish Publisher to Get a Book on the Yoto Carnegie Medal Shortlist!
Often when we are considering publishing a manuscript we send it out to external readers for their opinion. Sometimes we feel that we need a young person’s perspective. Sometimes we want the opinion of...
View ArticlePatricia Forde, Laureate na nÓg
Everyone at Little Island is totally, insanely delighted, ar sceitimíní ar fad, at the appointment of our wonderful author Patricia Forde as the seventh Laureate na nÓg (Ireland's Children's Literature...
View ArticleThe Táin – the podcast!
Did you know that Ireland has the longest unbroken vernacular literature in Western Europe? Just think about that – what a claim! But it must be true, because that’s what the immensely erudite (and...
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Little Island go to Catalonia and Mexico!
Managing rights at Little Island is an exciting and challenging role. We love to see our books travel to new places and for this reason we attend about two book fairs a year. We work with skilled...
View ArticleDiscover Irish Kids Books
Irish children's author Leona Forde contributes a guest post to the Little Island blog about the exciting Discover Irish Children's Books campaign, which has been doing a lot to raise the profile of...
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