Celebrating Irish picture books on World Book Day
Our School of English is celebrating World Book Day with three special online interviews with children's picture book authors and the best part is, the questions were written by school children!
Home to the Centre for Research in Children's and Young Adult Literature and a unique master's degree in this area, the School of English is delighted to present video interviews with the following authors:
- Peter Donnelly author of Up On The Mountain
- Tatyana Feeney author of Eva and the Perfect Rain
- Eoin McLoughlin author of The Longer the Wait, the Bigger the Hug
Dr Paula Murphy reached out to three class groups who have read the books with their teachers and come up with the questions for the authors.
The lecturer said: "I would like to say a big thank you to senior infants in Scoil Bhride, Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny, who read Eva and the Perfect Rain by Tatyana Feeney, to Senior Infants in Grace Park Educate Together National School who read Peter Donnelly’s Up on the Mountain, and to 3rd class in Castleknock Educate Together National School who read Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar’s The Longer the Wait the Bigger the Hug."
DCU holds an extensive children's book collection, including the Padraic Colum collection, The Bartlett Puffin Collection, and the Ladybird collection, amongst others.
Keep on an eye on Twitter on World Book Day on the 3rd of March for a chance to win a book bundle of our three featured picture books.
More about DCU's MA in Children's and Young Adult Literature
The School of English is proud of its ground-breaking history in initiating the academic study of children’s literature as a postgraduate discipline in Ireland. The course offers an opportunity to study children’s and young adult literature in a supportive environment with access to special collections of children's literature held in DCU Library including a collection from Children's Books Ireland.