| Description |
208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Gren's ghost / Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick -- The pumping station / Roddy Doyle -- The cabin in the woods / Enda Wyley -- The bear / John Connolly -- Bus stop / Pat Boran -- Abseiling, or The dancing engineers / Siobhán Parkinson -- Beautiful dawn / Paula Leyden -- Embedded in my brain / Seamus Cashman -- The ram king / Eoin Colfer -- Snail pals / Geraldine Mills -- Number 13 / Jim Sheridan -- There and here / Jane Mitchell -- The dirty river, Stillorgan / Mark Granier -- Stream time / Oisin McGann -- How to feed a stranger's donkey / Kate Newmann -- The library cat / Sarah Webb -- The world's greatest teen detective / Derek Landy. |
| Summary |
Once Upon a Place features six new poems by Irish poets alongside 11 new short stories from many of Irelands leading childrens writers including Roddy Doyle, Derek Landy and former Laureate na nÓg (a position awarded in Ireland to children's book creators) Siobhán Parkinson, as well as the first ever story for children by Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan, director of My Left Foot and In America. It also features new work by Eoin Colfer himself, along with Pat Boran, Seamus Cashman, John Connolly, Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Mark Granier, Paula Leyden, Oisín McGann, Geraldine Mills, Jane Mitchell, Kate Newmann, Sarah Webb and Enda Wyley |
| Subject |
English literature -- Irish authors -- Juvenile fiction.
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Children's stories, English -- Juvenile fiction.
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Children's poetry, English -- Juvenile fiction.
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Short stories -- Juvenile fiction.
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Children's poetry, English. |
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Children's stories, English. |
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English literature -- Irish authors. |
| Genre |
Young adult fiction.
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| Added Author |
Colfer, Eoin, editor.
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Lynch, Patrick James, illustrator.
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Fitzpatrick, Marie-Louise, author.
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Doyle, Roddy, 1958- author.
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Wyley, Enda, 1966- author.
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Connolly, John, 1968- author.
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Boran, Pat, 1963- author.
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Parkinson, Siobhán, author.
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Leyden, Paula, author.
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Cashman, Seamus, author.
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Colfer, Eoin, author.
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Mills, Geraldine, author.
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Sheridan, Jim, 1949- author.
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Mitchell, Jane (Writer of books for young people), author.
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Granier, Mark, author.
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McGann, Oisín, author.
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Newmann, Kate, 1965- author.
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Webb, Sarah, 1969- author.
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Landy, Derek, author.
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| ISBN |
9781910411377 (hbk.) |
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191041137X (hbk.) |
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