Reviews

This graphic novel gives us the background to the historical event of Bloody Sunday which took place on 21 November 1920 in Croke Park when 14 people were killed with a number of others injured. The story begins in 2007 during the Six Nations Cup where we meet a French rugby fan who is in Dublin for the Ireland-France game.

In this very different and original story we are brought to a dystopian city where tormentors are hunting for artists as there is no space or respect for art in this world.

In this story, Rita thinks she would love to travel to another planet in a spaceship and have aliens as friends.

In this novel, which is translated from the original French by Antain Mac Lochlainn, we are brought to Burundi in the 1990s. This story is about young man Gabi whose father is French and his mother is of Tutsi descent.

Darach Ó Scolaí’s latest novella brings readers to a small town on the west coast of Ireland in the first half of the 19th century.

In this YA novel, we meet Éanna Ó Corra or ‘Éanna Corr’ as his fellow students in secondary school call him. Éanna is a loner, a person on the edge who doesn’t have many friends until a new student arrives – Síomón Collina. Síomón is the polar opposite of Éanna – he is confident and self-assured.

When we meet Molaí, she is feeling sad and in need of a break from her phone and the digital world. The Lus na mBan Sí, or Foxglove Fairy, comes to help settle her mind by taking Molaí and her dog on a special journey through nature to remind her of the beauty of the natural world around us.

Here is a fantastic new series of boardbooks with three books (so far): Nano agus na huimhreacha (Nano and the numbers), Nano agus na dathanna (Nano and the colours) agus Nano agus na mothúcháin (Nano and the feelings).