Eve McDonnell
Children’s writer & artist 💫 Mama to best twins. Wonderlarker. ELSETIME 🪶 (2020), THE CHESTNUT ROASTER 🌰 (2022), THE LAST BOY 🧹 (2024)
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- Reposted by Eve McDonnellToday we are launching the Irish KidLit for Palestine Fundraiser in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (@medicalaidpal.bsky.social) Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025. You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine @sineadohart.bsky.social
- Dear reviewer ‘Jasmine', I'm in my writing cave and sometimes that can feel tricky - especially when I'm wrangling with a hyperactive plot, diminishing motivation and all the self doubt that comes with it - so to come up for air to find your review made ALL the difference. THANK YOU! 🙏
- Our cuckoo surprised us today, coming home early - 4th April 2025 🤗😭 He has flown all the way from Africa to Wexford, Ireland to sing his song once more 💫🥰🪶 (video from 2023)
- Oh, Fontainebleau, I fell in love with you! No different to Piaf’s chestnut in The Chestnut Roaster, the city is hidden inside a protective shell of thick woodland, and is home to the true abode of kings, delicious cuisine, beautiful boutiques, kind people, and - best of all… 1/3
- I’ve had the time of my life in one of Wexford’s most creative schools, Kennedy Park NS, and it’s all thanks to @childrensbooksireland.ie’s Champion of Reading programme where authors are matched with schools to encourage reading for joy. We went Book Whispering - their creativity & energy was pure🥇
- A huge thank you to writer and book blogger Rosi Hollinbeck for writing such a wonderful review of Elsetime. She read a review written by the brilliant @valinoratroy.bsky.social and had to meet mudlarker Needle Luckett and his gift-bearing crow for herself! rosihollinbeck.com/2025/03/10/e...
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- I am the chosen one 🤩💫💜😄 #missingbiscuit
- It’s #IrelandReads Day and we shared stories with young readers in Blackrock & Gorey libraries, made Wishprint poems, went book whispering, found golden hares, played chess with pirates, ate stone donuts with diamond teeth… Clearly, we got lost in a book or two - hope you do too!
- If you are a fan of children’s books in schools, check out the latest That’ll Teach You Podcast, chatting to @childrensbooksireland.ie’s Schools Outreach Manager, Becky Long. Spoiler - honoured to say #TheLastBoy was Becky’s top choice for 6th class 🇮🇪 (Yr7/8 🇬🇧) 🙌 open.spotify.com/episode/7mqR...
- ‘Based on a true story, the characters demand to be heard and the world created will stay with you. Look up to the stars and make a wish’ Delighted to see The Last Boy reviewed over on @bookclubsinschools.bsky.social’s fab blog 🙌🙌🙌
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- Huge thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for including news of the upcoming unveiling of a blue plaque for George Brewster, the chimney sweep climbing boy who stars in #TheLastBoy, in his weekly round-up in the Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
- @franquinnwrites.bsky.social is one of the best writers I know and just wait till you see what she has made!!! Book reveal coming sooooooon!!!! 👇
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- My enormous thanks to Pet O’Connell for this stunning review of #TheLastBoy in today’s Irish Examiner 🎉💫🧹 @irishexaminer.bsky.social @everywithwords.bsky.social
- FINALLY, George Brewster - the chimney sweep climbing boy who features in my book #TheLastBoy - is having his true story told to the masses! Media outlets are sharing his legacy - how his death resulted in a change that impacted the lives of children forever. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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- Thrilled to see The Last boy here, @sarahmerrett1.bsky.social - thank you! Can’t wait to read your next book - it looks amazing!!
- This morning’s roll-in-the-mud ritual resulted in an exaggerated smoky eye for the holiday season. Of course I told her that her makeup looks beautiful today 😍🐶🐾
- Choo-choo! There’s a new book by @susanbrownrigg.bsky.social coming down the tracks! This historical mystery adventure thunders along with umpteen twists, triumphs & trials 🚂 Susan has packed so much history between the lines that thrill seekers will love it! Out Jan @uclanpublishing.bsky.social 9+
- It’s #LateLateToyShow night which means the #BookElves2024 are back, recommending great children's books 📚 🎉🤩 The toy show kicked off with pets - here’s one good doggo book for 7+ It’s a wild and happy adventure with plenty of laughs too 🐶 The Lost Dogs by Patricia Forde #DiscoverIrishKidsbooks
- Another fun animal book for the #LateLateToyShow! Paddy Donnelly is one of our most prolific illustrator authors and this one is soooo clever - there’s a golden hare hiding on each spread and it’s fun to see who will find it first! #BookElves2024
- The @thebookcentre.bsky.social Christmas Catalogue is now out! It’s chocoblock with fab book recommendations - thrilled to see #TheLastBoy there! Also, WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THEY HAVE A WINE BAR IN THEIR WATERFORD STORE??!! 🎉😍 www.thebookcentre.ie @everywithwords.bsky.social
- Woohoo! Thrilled to see this! 🎉🤩 Thank you so much, everyone at @booktrust.bsky.social 🙏 #TheLastBoy BookTrust Book of the Day BookTrust NI Book of the Month @everywithwords.bsky.social #MG #ChildrensBooks
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- 🎉 The Times Best Irish Children’s Books 2024 🎉 I jingle-belled all the way to the shop to get a copy! Pages and pages of book recs by booksellers, all collated by elf Ruth @childrensbooksireland.ie! Louisa in Blackrock’s fab @ravenbooks.bsky.social, chose #TheLastBoy 🙏 @everywithwords.bsky.social
- A list from the land of storytellers 💚☘️💫 Children’s Writers & Illustrators of Ireland. Nudge if i’ve missed you 🤗 go.bsky.app/3xdoTtRat://did:plc:xomwenzmiuv5rtglkjyknyuv/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lc6fkfb6sm27
- ‘An extraordinary story based on the horror of child exploitation in Victorian times, but crammed with positivity, determination, hope and edge-of-seat drama. Anyone lucky enough to read it will not forget it for a very long time.’ Thank you, Booktrust! #TheLastBoy🧹🔭💫 @everywithwords.bsky.social
- MAGNIFIQUE! #NotreDame lived inside my mind for months while I wrote #TheChestnutRoaster. What a glorious day to see it brought back to life. Illustration by Ewa Beniak Haremska. @everywithwords.bsky.social
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- The Oliver Callan Show on @rteradio1.bsky.social dedicated today’s WHOLE SHOW to Irish Children’s Books! They gathered the best young readers to share their expert reviews of a brilliant selection of books curated by the wise owls at @childrensbooksireland.ie. 🧵 1/2
