Eve McDonnell

Thank you, Beth! 🙌

Today for Marvelous Middle Grade Monday, I'm featuring Eve McDonnell's debut ELSETIME. A great read. susanuhlig.com/2025/08/else...

@evemcdonnell.bsky.social

#amreading #bookbooster #kidlit #middlegrade #historical #timetravel

Thank you, Susan! 🤗🤗🤗

Today we are launching the Irish KidLit for Palestine Fundraiser in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (@medicalaidpal.bsky.social‬)

Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.

You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine

@sineadohart.bsky.social

Dear reviewer ‘Jasmine', I'm in my writing cave and sometimes that can feel tricky - especially when I'm wrangling with a hyperactive plot, diminishing motivation and all the self doubt that comes with it - so to come up for air to find your review made ALL the difference. THANK YOU! 🙏

Our cuckoo surprised us today, coming home early - 4th April 2025 🤗😭 He has flown all the way from Africa to Wexford, Ireland to sing his song once more 💫🥰🪶 (video from 2023)

Thanks Amanda! It is a beautiful place!

As a parting gift they presented me with a little glass jar filled with descriptions of their own amazing abilities and gifts, all inspired by the chestnut roaster’s story. They might be young, but inside they are giants 🤩 I will treasure it forever! 3/3

… the magnificent Anglophone Section of Fontainebleau’s International College whose teachers & children are rich with creativity. I spent two unforgettable days there chatting about The Chestnut Roaster - their class read, culminating in school trips to follow Piaf’s footsteps through Paris. 2/3

Oh, Fontainebleau, I fell in love with you! No different to Piaf’s chestnut in The Chestnut Roaster, the city is hidden inside a protective shell of thick woodland, and is home to the true abode of kings, delicious cuisine, beautiful boutiques, kind people, and - best of all… 1/3

I’ve had the time of my life in one of Wexford’s most creative schools, Kennedy Park NS, and it’s all thanks to @childrensbooksireland.ie’s Champion of Reading programme where authors are matched with schools to encourage reading for joy. We went Book Whispering - their creativity & energy was pure🥇

ELSETIME — Review & Giveaway Thought for the Day: “If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.” ~ Toni Morrison ~ Gifts for My Write…

A huge thank you to writer and book blogger Rosi Hollinbeck for writing such a wonderful review of Elsetime. She read a review written by the brilliant @valinoratroy.bsky.social and had to meet mudlarker Needle Luckett and his gift-bearing crow for herself! rosihollinbeck.com/2025/03/10/e...

These humans are taking over Irish kidlit one by one, I adore them. 💜

Author Kevin Moran at his book launch in Dubray Grafton St standing in front of a large standee of the cover of ‘The Doomsday Club’

Kevin Moran with author and guest speaker, Eve McDonnell, at the signing table at ‘The Doomsday Club’ book launch

MD Ivan O’Brien giving the opening speech at ‘The Doomsday Club’ book launch with the Dubray Books banner, podium and poster with book cover

Kevin Moran sitting down at the signing table at his book launch for ‘The Doomsday Club’ with his writer’s group and fellow authors standing behind, all holding up the book

We launched #TheDoomsdayClub by @kmoranwrites.bsky.social last night in #DubrayGraftonSt

Thank you to MD Ivan O’Brien and guest speaker @evemcdonnell.bsky.social for their lovely speeches, and to @dubraybooks.bsky.social for hosting!

Congratulations to Kevin on his debut novel 🎉

Out now!

I am the chosen one 🤩💫💜😄
#missingbiscuit

Breath held for you all - sending huge hugs to you and your brilliant, brave boy 💛💛💛💛💛

It’s #IrelandReads Day and we shared stories with young readers in Blackrock & Gorey libraries, made Wishprint poems, went book whispering, found golden hares, played chess with pirates, ate stone donuts with diamond teeth… Clearly, we got lost in a book or two - hope you do too!

Thank you! 🙏

Books! Books! Books! with Children's Books Ireland (Part 2) That'll Teach You · Episode

If you are a fan of children’s books in schools, check out the latest That’ll Teach You Podcast, chatting to @childrensbooksireland.ie’s Schools Outreach Manager, Becky Long. Spoiler - honoured to say #TheLastBoy was Becky’s top choice for 6th class 🇮🇪 (Yr7/8 🇬🇧) 🙌 open.spotify.com/episode/7mqR...

Thank you for your lovely review of The Last Boy! 💫🙌

‘Based on a true story, the characters demand to be heard and the world created will stay with you. Look up to the stars and make a wish’
Delighted to see The Last Boy reviewed over on @bookclubsinschools.bsky.social’s fab blog 🙌🙌🙌

Some lovely advance reviews for #TheDoomsdayClub! Are they right? Find out for yourself when Doomsday arrives on March 3rd. Link in bio for preorders
#DoomsdayIsComing

#debutauthor #discoveririshkidsbooks #kidlit #middlegradebooks #teenbooks #horror #fantasy #2025books

Huge thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for including news of the upcoming unveiling of a blue plaque for George Brewster, the chimney sweep climbing boy who stars in #TheLastBoy, in his weekly round-up in the Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

@franquinnwrites.bsky.social is one of the best writers I know and just wait till you see what she has made!!! Book reveal coming sooooooon!!!! 👇

Children’s book reviews: Dickensian child poverty meets Victorian scientific advancement Pet O’Connell rounds up a selection of the latest children’s books, featuring history, rhymes, and the surreal

'The Last Boy' is at once a story of darkness and hope as Brewster wishes on each star that he will be the last climbing boy. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... @everywithwords.bsky.social @evemcdonnell.bsky.social @susancahill.bsky.social @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social

Thanks so much for your wonderful review of The Last Boy, Pet! 🙌

Thank you, Kevin!!

Cheers, Fran! 🤗

My enormous thanks to Pet O’Connell for this stunning review of #TheLastBoy in today’s Irish Examiner 🎉💫🧹

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@everywithwords.bsky.social

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