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‘Small Lives’ a lovingly-detailed ‘screen-printed anthology’ 

Maybe TOMORROW.

Ruth Hallinan writes;

I am holding a launch TOMORROW that I thought some of your readers might be interested in. I run a small publishing project called Poddle Publications that screen-prints handmade books. I have spent the last year producing a limited run of a screen-printed anthology called ‘Small Lives’ at Damn Fine Print Studio and I will be launching it at The Winding Stair bookshop ( 40 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin) from 6-8pm. The book contains contains prose, poetry and illustration from some great artists and writers and I would love to spread the word! Something your readers might be interested in is that each page from the book may removed easily and framed as a limited edition print!

Small Lives launch (Facebook)

Pics: Tom Rowley

Spirulina-Bonbons

‘Bon Bons’ which may actually  be ‘good good’ for you?

Chocolate salty balls neither salty nor choc-filled?

What fresh whipped madness is this?

TW writes:

I know you don’t normally do this, but my wife, Susan Jane White, launches her first cookbook today and Saskia Vermeulen has just made a short [90 second] film [above]] about Susan’s delicious spirulina bonbons…. the original amazeballs. The book is called The Extra Virgin Kitchen and it’s v handsome, though I admit to some bias.

Susan Jane White

CBI BOTY 2013 A2 HR51 NO FEE BOOK AWARDS(Above, from left:  Daniel Bradley (9), Nahla Burke (3), Martha Quinn (9) and Benjamin Bradley (9) in Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Academy, launching the 23rd Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Awards.)

That changes TODAY.

Children’s Books Ireland has announced its shortlist for the Book of the Year.

And what a page-turning 12 months it has been in children’s writing.

The shortlisted include:

The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
Hóng by Anna Heussaff
Na Laochra is Lú by Laoise Ní Cléirigh and illustrated by Steve Simpson
Spellbound by Siobhán Parkinson and illustrated by Olwyn Whelan
Mise agus an Dragún by Patricia Forde and illustrated by Steve Simpson
Dark Warning by Marie Louise Fitzpatrick
Oh No, George! by Chris Haughton
This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers
Grounded by Sheena Wilkinson

And we have all TEN to give away to the favourite niece/nephew of YOUR choice in a competition that could help you win their affection for at least a YEAR.

To enter, complete this sentence.

I would like to give my [niece/nephew]___________the Children’s Books of the year because________________

Lines close at 3pm.

Winner announced in comments section by 5pm.

Children’s Books Ireland

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