Hobbies, we have books ranging from Chess, Piano, Cooking, Baking, Painting, Drawing, collecting and many more, check them out at Lovekidsbooks, Irelands online Childrens book site. There are a number of books on cooking for children, the baking books have gone down well in our house.
The Celts arrived in Ireland around 700BCE and dominated the bronze and iron ages. Even after Christianity Irish Celts retained much of their unique culture. Accessible anarchic and crammed to the rafters with cartoons and wacky illustrations this book is as deadly as Irish history gets!
The must-have art activity book for fans of Tom Gates: a celebration of imagination and creativity packed with drawing guides how-to doodles pages to colour-in and thing to make and do.
James Joyce was born in Rathgar in Dublin in 1881. A brilliant student James abandoned a career in medicine to pursue his dream of being a writer. After meeting his future wife Nora the two left Dublin in 1904 to live on the Continent. But Dublin never left Jamess heart. Over the next three decades James based his characters on people he knew in Dublin. But it was his home city that was the main theme in his books even naming one of his most famous works Dubliners. As James continued to live in exile and battled bad health and family problems his genius as a writer grew. In 1922 he puplished Ulysses a novel that would become world famous and change the way books were written and read. James is one of the greatest Irish writers. His life and works are celebrated each year on June 16th - which his native city has named Bloomsday in honour of Leopold Bloom Jamess main character in Ulysses.
Provides helpful advice on choosing the best words for creating characters setting scenes and shaping stories as well as special vocabulary for different story themes. Young authors can create their own stories and build up a word bank of favourite words and phrases.