📢Calling all schools 👋

We are inviting primary and secondary schools across Ireland to apply for hundreds of books for their school library, class sets for their students to keep, visits from authors and illustrators, and more!

Interested? Of course you are!

Join us at 5pm…

Are you ready for an adventure?

There’s a mysterious creature living in Merrion Square Park and expert explorer, Laureate na nÓg Patricia Forde needs your help to track it down! Search for clues and use your imagination to figure out what this elusive creature needs to survive and…

Our latest RTÉjr Book Club roundup is now live! 📚

This month is the about dazzling debuts, fantastic firsts and the brilliant beginnings. Check out the article below and remember those names because we think you'll be hearing them a bunch in the months to come!

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Thanks so much to Becky from Children's Books Ireland for an informative talk on recommended diverse and inclusive reads for children and young people 📚
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Good morning from #Skibbereen in West Cork! Sad to say it’s my last day on the #WholeWildWorld bus. We’ve had young readers to meet, chats with booksellers, cups of tea with teachers and even hugs with librarians! I’ll never forget it - for ever in awe of Patricia Forde & her team 🙌

It’s time to Drop Everything And Read!

We meet some of the children’s writers & illustrators who will be on the tour visiting schools, libraries, bookshops & cultural venues right throughout the country, all part of the Whole Wild World bus tour on #RTENationwide Friday 26th April RTÉ One 7pm
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Stick on some popcorn get comfortable, because we’re on Nationwide tonight 🎥 !!

Zainab Boladale and the crew have been following us on our #WholeWildWorld journey and now you get to see what we’ve been up to!

⏰ Rté One tonight at 7pm

Best publishing day ever, celebrating my new book Milly McCarthy and the Sports Day Shambles, illustrated by Karen Harte by Gill Books On the brilliantly bonkers wild wacky bus with Laureate na nÓg Children's Books Ireland Eve McDonnell 💫 THE LAST BOY (Sept) 💫 Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick Ashwin Chacko

Words can't describe the last few days - what a glorious, ridiculous adventure.

Thank you for including me, Laureate na nÓg and Children's Books Ireland, what a joy to be among such a bevy of amazing authors! #WholeWideWorld

Second school visit of the day - Scoil an Ghleanna, overlooking the Skellig Islands! Wow what a location - it’s no wonder the school children had such rich imaginations! Also, they have a chocolate factory around the corner! 😛 #WholeWildWorld Laureate na nÓg Children's Books Ireland