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Erika McGann
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Children's author with lots of books out for kids of all ages 🌟
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So excited that Run Home Little Fox by Tom McCaughren, @shannonbergin.bsky.social and me has been shortlisted for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social Junior Children’s Book of the Year! 🌟🦊🌟

Published by @theobrienpress.bsky.social 😊

You can vote for this and many others at www.irishbookawards.ie
Graphic for announcement of shortlisted book for the An Post Irish Book Awards. Dark grey and green background with logos for IBA and Specsavers at the top. At the centre is the cover of the book Run Home Little Fox - a very autumnal woodland scene with trees, flowers and bushes in greens, golds, reds and yellows, with a joyful little fox cub running across the middle. Below the cover is the text Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year - Junior Shortlist 2025
October 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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🎉PUB DAY🎉

Puffling and the Stormy Sea by me and @gerrydalyart.bsky.social is out today!

Published by @theobrienpress.bsky.social and available in your lovely local bookshop 😊
A copy of children's picture book Puffling and the Stormy Sea propped up next to a stuffed toy of a puffling. The book cover features a wild sea background in blues and greens, with the main Puffling character in the foreground, smiling while balancing on the back of a basking shark. Above the title overhead is a rainbow.
September 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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#discoveririshkidsbooks
New poster from Discover Irish Kids' Books featuring covers of seven new books for ages 7-13+ on a purple and orange background. All covers are colourfully illustrated either with main characters or with elements from the stories.
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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#discoveririshkidsbooks
New poster from Discover Irish Kid's Books featuring covers for eight new books for ages 6-7+ on purple and orange background. All covers are colourfully illustrated either with main characters or elements of nature.
September 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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#discoveririshkidsbooks have some fab new posters showcasing Irish books out this month 🌟📚🌟
Delighted to have two books in there - Tír na nÓg with Conor Busuttil AND Puffling and the Stormy Sea with @gerrydalyart.bsky.social
New poster from Discover Irish Kid's Books featuring book covers for nine new children's books on a purple and orange background. All the books are for 3-6+ years and have colourful covers with illustrations of main characters
September 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🎉PUB DAY🎉
New edition of The Clubhouse Mystery out now!
With a FANTASTIC new cover by 🌟Naomi Osibodu🌟 - Winner of the Design A Cover Competition from @childrensbooksireland.ie and @theobrienpress.bsky.social

Some brilliant runners-up featured back and inside too! 😊
A photo of the new cover of the first book in a detective series for young readers, Cass the Bubble Street Gang, designed by Design-a-Cover Competition winner Naomi Osibodu. The series name is at the top in a white banner and the cover has a bright yellow background. The three main characters, all around 10 years old, are looking out at you through a magnifying glass. There is a green hill behind them with a rickety clubhouse at the top. The title The Clubhouse Mystery is in a skinny black font at the bottom.
August 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📚 COMING SOON 📚
I was so lucky to get to work with the wonderful Tom McCaughren on Run Home Little Fox, coming October from @theobrienpress.bsky.social 🌟
The artwork by @shannonbergin.bsky.social is beyond gorgeous - I cannot wait to see it in print!
Cover reveal for new book. The cover has a very cute image of a fox cub running through a wilderness of softly coloured flowers and trees. The title of the book, Run Home Little Fox, is written above the fox cub, with the authors Tom McCaughren and Erika McGann, and Illustrator Shannon Bergin written underneath.
June 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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10.30am Sat 28th June I'll be at the wonderful Hinterland Festival in Kells ☀️📚☀️
Reading picture books, playing games and talking all things Puffling!
There are so many fab book events available - check out the programme here

www.hinterland.ie/m-14-hinterl...
June 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Reading Wired Our Own Way, ed. by @niamhgarvey.bsky.social - it's excellent. Have Songs for Ghosts by @clarakiyoko.bsky.social lined up next 😊
Copy of the book, Wired Our Own Way, sitting on old-fashioned style computer keyboard. The book is green with title in gold foil. The subtitle is An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices, and it is edited by Niamh Garvey.
May 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The glossy and gorgeous Canadian edition of It's Too Dark, Puffling - by me and @gerrydalyart.bsky.social 🎉
Published by the wonderful people @boulderbooks.bsky.social 📚🌟
So lovely to see Puffling take another trip across the pond 😊
Copy of the Canadian edition of picture book, It's Too Dark, Puffling, by Erika McGann and Gerry Daly. Cover image is of two pufflings in a peaceful nighttime scene overlooking the sea. There is a cuddly toy of a puffling standing next to the book.
May 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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New translated editions!! 🎉🎉
Lithuanian ed. of Tabitha Plimtock and the Edge of the World (Terra Publica, translator Viktorija Uzėlaitė).
Czech ed. of The Strange Tale of Barnabus Kwerk (Grada Publishing, translator Eva Kadlecová).
Both with all the amazing ills by @phildrawsthings.bsky.social 🌟
Two piles of books on a wooden floor. On the left, copies of a Lithuanian edition of Tabitha Plimtock and the Edge of the World with a hardback cover. The cover illustration is in dark blues, purples and pinks, a fantastical image of a girl in a strange landscape with weird creatures. On the right of the image are copies of a Czech edition of The Strange Tale of Barnabus Kwerk. The cover illustration is of a boy standing in front of a huge golden clockwork globe. Both are middle grade fantasy novels.
May 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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The Design-a-Cover Competition from @theobrienpress.bsky.social and @childrensbooksireland.ie is OPEN!! The winning cover will be used on the new edition of The Clubhouse Mystery published this autumn 🎉📚🎉 Parents and teachers, check out the details below!
childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/...
Copy of the book, The Clubhouse Mystery, with original cover by Vince Reid. Light, cheerful illustration of three young friends standing together, with their secret Clubhouse in the background.
February 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Thanks so much New York Public Library for including #ChasingtheShyTown in their Best Books For Kids 2024 🎉🎉
Screenshot of book review on New York Public Library website for Chasing the Shy Town by Erika McGann, illustrated by Toni Galmés
December 10, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Many thanks to the lovely people of @booktrust.bsky.social Northern Ireland and @clivemcf.bsky.social for a truly wonderful Author Tour last week. EVERY SINGLE KID we met got their own copy of #WhatisaPeachick to take home. The programme is pure magic, and it was such a joy to be a part of it 🌟📚🦚
Author and Illustrator of the picture book 'What is a Peachick?' sitting with p2 school group. Each kid holds their own copy of the book. 'Chick Things' with beaks and feet drawn by p1 and p2 school groups 'Chick Things' with beaks and feet drawn by p1 and p2 school groups 'Chick Things' with beaks and feet drawn by p1 and p2 school groups
December 3, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Fab recommendations from booksellers and @childrensbooksireland.ie in The Sunday Times today! 📚
Thanks so much @meabhmcdonnell.bsky.social and Charlie Byrne's Bookshop for the gorgeous review for Peachick by me and @clivemcf.bsky.social ♥️🦚♥️
Copy of picture book called What is a Peachick with a fluffy peacock toy. Also a supplement from the Sunday Times recommending children's books for Christmas.
December 1, 2024 at 4:06 PM