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Chinese New Year Children’s Programme at Dublin City

January 17, 2012

To celebrate the Chinese New Year 2012, the Year of the Dragon, join Dublin City Public Libraries for the following events: Dragon Stories and Dance Chinese stories and new year crafts Chinese New Year arts and crafts All Dublin City libraries have a great range of books with exciting stories about dragons [...]

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Dive In: Totally Teen Festival Update

January 12, 2012

As part of South Dublin County Library’s YAPS  - Dive In! Totally Teen Festival,  graphic artist Maeve Clancy ran a one day workshop on all aspects of graphic art.  This proved very popular with the participants.  View some of the work produced on the day here.  Well done to everybody [...]

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What is your favourite library?

January 11, 2012

Vote for your favourite library in Children’s Books Ireland’s ‘Library of the Month’ competition. Last November CBI chose Clondalkin as an ‘interesting library’ and now they’re turning what was an occasional series into a Library of the Month competition. You can nominate your local or favourite Irish public library by [...]

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Children’s Book Envoy Defines His Mission

January 10, 2012

The latest  U.S. national ambassador for young people’s literature has been named as Walter Dean Myers. Mr. Myers, an African-American man who dropped out of high school but built a successful writing career — largely because of his lifelong devotion to books —  said his message to young people would [...]

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Wiggly Woo agus a Cháirde

January 6, 2012

Wiggly Woo agus a Cháirde was officially launched at a ceremony in Tramore Library on Monday, November 28th, 2011. The book is the culmination of an ongoing project with Tramore Library involving 3-4 year olds as part of Kids’ Own’s Travelling Library project. Using nursery rhymes as a stimulus for art [...]

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