Easter Hours 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 Friday 3rd 10-6pm Saturday 4th 10-6pm Sunday 5th ~ Closed Monday 6th ~ Closed

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🥰When a customer takes all your recommendations

Shhhh Listen

🥰When a customer takes all your recommendations

Given that there are sixteen countries participating (so far), it has been suggested that those of us Book Crawling on this island use the #IrelandBookCrawl hashtag (tho I personally have issues with death-by-hashtag posts, no harm to include the #GlobalBookCrawl tag too). Bookshops listed in the 🧵⤵️

Given that there are sixteen countries participating (so far), it has been suggested that those of us Book Crawling on this island use the #IrelandBookCrawl hashtag (tho I personally have issues with death-by-hashtag posts, no harm to include the #GlobalBookCrawl tag too). Bookshops listed in the 🧵⤵️

Aramark. Providers of catering all over Ireland. Owners of most of the Avoca chain.

A lil' doodle for the eco-celebrating Wild Mind festival in Fenit this year 🪴

This new book on coastal foraging by Mark Williams looks very impressive

This new book on coastal foraging by Mark Williams looks very impressive

I should add that, with two notable exceptions, I've kept the selection to picture book illustrators (could do equally long threads for early readers, early graphic novels, and older graphic novels; what a golden age of illustration)

Reading about Berry and Bob waking up from hibernation and clearing loving springtime

More about them here: zoo.kyiv.ua/en/our-clubf...

For #caturday, enjoy the absolute unit that is Lynx Stepan zoo.kyiv.ua/en/lynx-step...

If you're facing down a water crisis, you don't bet the national economy on opening more waterparks than any neighbouring nations. Ireland doesn't need more data centres. We're overburdened by the ones we already have. It could not be more obvious.

Ireland's data centres nationally are already using energy at 4 times the PROJECTED European average for 2030. If we're serious about energy conservation the very first thing we have to do is reintroduce the moratorium on building any more of them. #spéirgorm

PSA: It's vital that we conserve fuel in the coming weeks. Here's a few tips to help do your part. 1. WFH 2. Walk. Don't drive 3. Don't use petrol as an accelerant when burning down your local data centre 4. Shop local 5. Don't start any unprovoked wars with your neighbours 6. Don't use your dryer

For #caturday, enjoy the absolute unit that is Lynx Stepan zoo.kyiv.ua/en/lynx-step...

I should add that, with two notable exceptions, I've kept the selection to picture book illustrators (could do equally long threads for early readers, early graphic novels, and older graphic novels; what a golden age of illustration)

Unbelievably hard to whittle down and this is still going to have to be a be a🧵 Have left out anyone already mentioned in the comments⤵️ Without further ado... Aaron Becker Carson Ellis (so beloved we have her framed) Daniel Egnéus Felicita Sala 1/5 #KidsBooksFriday #KidLit

Flavia Z. Drago Holly Swain Ian McQue Jean Jullien 2/5 #KidsBooksFriday #KidLit

Jeffrey Alan Love Jill Barklem Mariachiara Di Giorgio Marta Altés 3/5 #KidsBooksFriday #KidLit

Mary Murphy Morag Hood Richard Jones Ross Collins 4/5 #KidsBooksFriday #KidLit

And last but most certainly not least, Eoin McLaughlin Richard Scarry 5/5 #KidsBooksFriday #KidLit #GoodNight

Unbelievably hard to whittle down and this is still going to have to be a be a🧵 Have left out anyone already mentioned in the comments⤵️ Without further ado... Aaron Becker Carson Ellis (so beloved we have her framed) Daniel Egnéus Felicita Sala 1/5 #KidsBooksFriday #KidLit

I have tried to pick a few that haven't already been shouted out! Here are 4 I really love: #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

Adding Flotsam by #DavidWiesner, and also #JamesMayhew needs a mention. He's done so much but I have a special love for Nen and the lonely fisherman by @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social and Gaspard the Fox by @zebsoanes.com #KidsBooksFriday

2/2 I love Ivy Wallace's Pookie because when I was little, back in the middle 50s, colour was still scarce in children's books. Her detailed images were magical. Then, I'd be pushed to choose between Oxenbury and Hughes for great observations of children

#KidsBooksFriday There are soooo many. But these are among my favourites 1/2

Ada Limón talking poetry and emotion as no-one else does. And reading two poems. open.spotify.com/episode/4IWb...

We are participating in the #GlobalBookCrawl! Find out which Irish bookshops are participating here: www.globalbookcrawl.org/europe

Ulster: @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social The Elk Bookshop The Bookshelf The Secret Bookshelf No Alibis #GlobalBookCrawl

1/2 Connaught: @tertuliabookshop.bsky.social McLoughlins Bookshop The Bookshop, Westport Rare Coast Books The Greenway Antiques & Book Store Westport Library Castle Books Charlestown Library Pagur Bán #GlobalBookCrawl

2/2 Connaught: @libersligo.bsky.social Charlie Byrne's @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Turning Pages The Cliften Bookshop The Inkbound Bookshop #GlobalBookCrawl

1/2 Munster: Banner Books Salmon Bookshop Sean's Bookshop The Lahinch Bookshop The Ennis Bookshop O'Mahony's Genius Juniors Bookstór Philip's Bookshop #GlobalBookCrawl

2/2 Munster: Bantry Bookshop Carrigaline Leaf & Bower Skibbereen Bookshop Fermoy Books Midleton Books Vibes & Scribes Worm Books Bookworm Bookshop The Book Centre #GlobalBookCrawl

1/2 Leinster: The Book Centre Bridge Street Books @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social Tales for Tadpoles The Village Bookshop @woodbinebooks.bsky.social Seanchai Books Maynooth Bookshop Barker & Jones @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social #GlobalBookCrawl

2/2 Leinster: @booksupstairs.bsky.social The Winding Stair The Company of Books Us! Alan Hanna's Hampton Books Manor Books The Village Bookshop The Book Haven Antonia's Bookstore #GlobalBookCrawl

Am a regular at The Elk, shopped at The Bookshelf yesterday and looking forward to visiting Bridge Books asap. 💜📚#IndependentBookstores #Ireland #IrishBookStores #Books #Reading #ShopLocal

We are participating in the #GlobalBookCrawl! Find out which Irish bookshops are participating here: www.globalbookcrawl.org/europe

Love your choices… I want to add @dansantat.bsky.social @vivschwarz.bsky.social #JonKlassen and #EmilyGravett all clever and true master of visual storytelling #KidsBooksFriday

I love how the illustrations from your childhood help to build you as a person and feed your understanding of the world.

Good Friday, good morning

There are so many wonderful illustrators, making it almost impossible to choose. I’ve gone mainstream and two of my choices are influenced by how many times little granddaughter and I have enjoyed them together #KidsBooksFriday

I’ve always thought that too. I’m shocked when publishers don’t give credit, particularly on the cover but also on social media when they are using the image to advertise.

@sarahmcintyre.bsky.social is my absolute favourite. So warm and beautiful.I 💖 all her & @philipreeve.bsky.social's work but esp _Pugs_. Jon Klassen's economy of style kills me, so expressive. @louiestowell.bsky.social is anarchy and hilarity. Hard to pick one but 💚! And Laura Ellen Anderson is joy!

Jill Calder would be another one. I love her cover art for Katya Balen's Ghostlines 🤩 #KidsBooksFriday Also she's Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😄

So hard to choose - but these are some personal favourites of mine and my library users. From Black Dog by Levi Pinfold, The Miracle of the Bears by Wolf Erlbruch, The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish by Chloe Savage and The Gnome Book by Loes Riphagen. #KidsBookFriday

Levi Pinfold is up there for me 🥰 his illustrations for @hannahgold.bsky.social in particular are a joy. #KidsBookFriday