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November 30, 2010
I'm doing a Christmas Market!
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November 29, 2010
Trócaire Christmas Cards
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Can you spot a hidden character in this card?
November 26, 2010
The Irish Book Awards!
November 25, 2010
Owl, Chicken & Cow Book Tour!
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November 23, 2010
Story Spark Ignites!
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November 21, 2010
Bridge Street Books
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November 19, 2010
Maisy, Mavis and Marge!
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November 17, 2010
Cinemagic
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Off to Belfast now to give some Hugglewugs Workshops as part of the unmissable Cinemagic Film Festival. There is something for everyone, especially if you are interested in animation, film or storytelling.
November 16, 2010
Nowhere is safe...
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Great night last night at the Harry Potter Premiere. Walked down the black carpet sprinkled with purple glitter with my lovely Megan. She was in her element with her Uncle Fergus and Aunty Emer. We sat three rows from the front so every Harry Potter pore was visible!
November 15, 2010
Potter Potter!
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November 11, 2010
Yum!
November 10, 2010
Five Hearts Review!
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November 9, 2010
It's not easy being small...
November 8, 2010
StorySpark at The Ark!
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I was filming excerpts for RTE today. It's part of highlighting StorySpark, a celebration of children’s literature that promises to light up even the darkest of winter days.
November 6, 2010
Irish Times Today.
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Lovely write up of 'On The Road With Mavis and Marge' in The Irish Times today.
'Once we had Thelma and Louise. Now, with Niamh Sharkey’s On the Road with Mavis and Marge (Walker, £11.99), comes another couple of lively ladies in search of life and adventure. But this Mavis is a cow, this Marge is a chicken and their chosen mode of transport is a red bicycle – all very fine until their first puncture and their first encounter with a sequence of other creatures who assist them on their way. A map incorporated at one point into the text seems to suggest that their travels begin in north Antrim – this might well explain their permanently excitable state – before taking in the Antarctic and outer space. But home (and a surprise) await. This is the Sharkey of The Ravenous Beast and I’m a Happy Hugglewug, pictorial inventiveness bursting out of every page. Watch out especially for Albert, the perkiest of all bespectacled penguins.'
November 5, 2010
Trapped by Monsters
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November 3, 2010
The Dublin Airport Authority Children's Competition
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November 1, 2010
Irish Book Awards shortlist announcement
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It was so great to meet Derek Landy at the shortlist announcement. He just lives down the road from me in Rush, but we hadn't meet before. Megan, my daughter loves the Skulduggery Pleasant series. She is reading book 2 at the moment and loving it. Derek signed a photo for her and she was totally thrilled!