by admin | Aug 13, 2018 | Book Reviews
“Diary Detectives” by Erika McGann is about a girl called Cass and her two best friends called Lex and Nicholas. Cass has a mortal enemy, Ms Lee. Ms Lee wants all the children to stop annoying the residents. She makes up rules that mean children aren’t...
by admin | Aug 10, 2018 | Book Reviews
This is a story about things going missing at Lenny’s grandad’s house. There are good descriptions of the creatures that Lenny and his grandad meet on their quest to find out what is going on. While some parts of the story are slightly creepy, otherwise it is funny...
by admin | Jun 19, 2018 | Book Reviews
The children in my class thought that this book, “A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea” by Sarah Webb and Steve Mc Carthy, was a fabulous book. They really enjoyed the poems and they had great fun reading the poems by themselves and aloud. The collection of poems...
by admin | Jun 19, 2018 | Book Reviews
“Firsts for Irish Women” by Olive Collins, “Martin Luther King Jr.” by Andrew O’Connor and “Pope Francis” by Brian Doyle are all books which are part of Poolbeg’s “In a Nutshell” series. The first of these books...
by admin | Jun 13, 2018 | Book Reviews
I really enjoyed reading this book and I would highly recommend it. There’s a lot of spying, action and adventure. I felt like I was in the story along with the three main characters who are friends that find themselves caught up in the action at a very volatile...
by admin | Jun 11, 2018 | Book Reviews
Tá an leabhar seo, scríobhta ag Siobhán Grogan, greannmhar agus idirghníomhach. Áis iontach atá i gceist a bhaineann usáid as athrá agus scéal cliste. Cé go gceapann Cillian go bhfuil a bhreithlá dearmadta ag gach éinne, ní mar sin a thiteann cúrsaí amach ag an...
by admin | Jun 11, 2018 | Book Reviews
I really enjoyed “Votes for Women – The Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement”. The author, Caroline Busher, has created an interesting and exciting non-fiction book that provides lots of information about real women who fought for their right to...
by admin | Jun 6, 2018 | Book Reviews
“Stand by Me” by Judy Curtin is an amazing sequel to “Time after Time” and a touching book that blends two diverse themes of fantasy and reality. This spellbinding tale illustrates the adventures of Molly and Beth. When they find out that their...
by admin | May 20, 2018 | Book Reviews
I found this book incredibly fun to read. I just wanted to keep reading as it is educational but not boring. It was addictive to read. I did not want to put the book down. It was clever of the author to put reality and make believe together to create this amazing...
by admin | Apr 29, 2018 | Book Reviews
I read the book “The Historopedia Quiz Book” by Shauna Burke. This is a great book for teachers to test their class about Irish and world history, or just for normal people to learn some interesting facts about history. If you use this book, it is great for quizzes or...
by admin | Apr 29, 2018 | Book Reviews
Rugby Heroes is the latest in the series of’ Rugby’ books by Gerard Siggins featuring Eoin Madden and his friends who get up to all sorts of adventure while playing the sport they love – Rugby. What make this even more interesting is they are joined on their...
by admin | Apr 18, 2018 | Book Reviews
This book is aimed to captivate the post Montessori pupils. It is a very creative, fun and descriptive story. The story is about a leprechaun couple and a spider. It exemplifies the mantra of ‘Never judge a book by its cover’. The story is written by Seamus O’Conaill...
by admin | Apr 16, 2018 | Book Reviews
Ó thaobh litríochta agus ealaíne, is leabhair álainn é seo. Thosnaíos á léamh le mo rang sinsir (4ú go 6ú) tar éis aonad faoin mbéaloideas. Chomh maith le sin táim tar éis an leabhair a úsáid mar bhunús de roinnt ranganna ealaíne agus dánta. Ta sceitseanna Olivia...
by admin | Apr 15, 2018 | Book Reviews
This story is about our President going to Dublin Castle and forgetting his glasses. The President’s pigeon must fly across Dublin and give them back to him. I liked it because it’s about our President and a pigeon. I loved the full-coloured pictures and when the...
by admin | Apr 12, 2018 | Book Reviews
I found this book really enjoyable, funny and witty. I am not usually a big fan of football books, but this book might have changed that! It has a really great storyline and plot with lots of twists and turns. All the characters are very realistic. I liked that it is...
