Belfast author Sheena Wilkinson has won the 23^rd CBI Book of the Year Award and is the second author ever to win both the Book of The Year Award and the Children’s Choice Award for her novel Grounded. Set in a beak, contemporary Belfast, the novel follows a …

The one thing you need to know about Alex T Smith, who is speaking at Rebels and Rulebreakers on Saturday 18th May is that he is addicted to drawing, as his sketchbooks reveal. He is also an expert at that essential illustrator’s skill, people watching, saying his ‘exceptional …

Dublin Writers Festival and Children’s Books Ireland invite you to Get Drawn In to a unique celebration of European picture book makers. The city has come alive with specially commissioned illustrations from our resident picture book makers Hervé Tullet (France), Sarah McIntyre (UK) and Laureate na nÓg, Niamh Sharkey (IRL). …

With today’s CBI Book of the Year Awards Shortlist announcement our Shadowing Groups nationwide are getting to work, reading the books on the shortlist and ruminating over their merits. Every year CBI asks 10 Shadowing Groups to become Junior Juries, taking on the challenge of completing all 10 books …

The shortlist for the 23^rd CBI Book of the Year Awards was revealed today, Tuesday March 19^th 2013. Each of the ten titles will compete for six awards, which includes the innovative ‘Children’s Choice Award’ voted for by ten junior juries located across the country. The winners will …

The North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) was established under the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, to develop consultation, co-operation and action within the island of Ireland on matters of mutual interest, North and South. One of the North South Areas of Co-operation is education, and this year CBI have been lucky enough …