Great Children's Writers

Following the success of its Great Irish Writers series, the Irish Independent, compiled and promoted a companion series, this time a set of children’s books that includes both international children’s classics, books much loved by generations of children and some of the classics of the
future.

One feature of the series is its distinctive Irish slant. Among its books are well-established favourites such as Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels and The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde; twentieth-century classics such as The Bookshop on the Quay by Patricia Lynch and The Island of Horses by
Eilis Dillon; bestsellers like Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna, and novels by Irish writers who have won international acclaim, such as Benny and Omar by Eoin Colfer and Sisters ... No Way! by Siobhan Parkinson.

Mary Shine Thompson, College Research Coordinator at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, wrote the biographical notes on the authors and the sleeve notes for the collection.

The 20 Irish Independent Great Children’s Books Series 2006 are:

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson;

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain;

The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame;

Benny and Omar by Eoin Colfer;

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit;

The Guns of Easter by Gerard Whelan;

Switchers by Kate Thompson;

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum;

The Bookshop on the Quay by Patricia Lynch;

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie;

Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott;

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift;

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll;

Sisters ... No Way! by Siobhan Parkinson;

The Borrowers by Mary Norton;

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde;
Just William by R. Crompton;

The Island of Horses by Eilis Dillon;

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss;

Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna

 

Last Updated: Thursday September 21 2006