Talking to classes in Scoil Mhuire in Newbridge, Co Kildare

Happy World Book Day to everyone!

I hope you all have a brilliant and fun time as there are lots of events in schools, bookshops and libraries all over Ireland with book quizzes, fancy dress, design a book cover or book mark or character competitions and book swaps.

There is no better time to pick up a book! To help you along there are 15 special mini World Book Day Books that you can purchase with your special Euro 1.50 or £1 tokens or you can put them towards another book you want to buy in the bookshop…. If so maybe you can try to buy an Irish Children’s book. 

The Discover Irish Childrens Books campaign continues and I was delighted to see Safe Harbour feature in the latest bestselling list from around different parts of the country. I think the lovely new cover has definitely helped.

For us writers it is a busy time and in the last few day I have talked to the First Year boys in Oatlands Senior School in Stillorgan, in Dublin , the 4 and 5^th classes in the  Gael Scoil in Greystones in Co Wicklow  and the 4, 5^th and some of the 6^th classes in Scoil Mhuire in Newbridge. I love meeting all my amazing readers and cannot believe the range of my different books that you are reading. It makes me so happy that I am a writer.

After talking in Greystones I went to lunch down at the seafront and bumped in to the wonderful English author Frank Cottrell Boyce who had been visiting a school in Delgany. We both love meeting our readers and talking about books! 

Marita with teacher Tracey O Mahoney and Cliona Galvin Principal of Scoil Mhuire.