A Drop in the Ocean –The Little Island Blog

Little Island Books are delighted to announce that Solo by Gráinne O’Brien has this week been named on the shortlists of two major awards: the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and...

Irish children's author Leona Forde contributes a guest post to the Little Island blog about the exciting Discover Irish Children's Books campaign, which has been doing a lot to raise...

Managing rights at Little Island is an exciting and challenging role. We love to see our books travel to new places and for this reason we attend about two book...

Did you know that Ireland has the longest unbroken vernacular literature in Western Europe? Just think about that – what a claim! But it must be true, because that’s what...

Everyone at Little Island is totally, insanely delighted, ar sceitimíní ar fad, at the appointment of our wonderful author Patricia Forde as the seventh Laureate na nÓg (Ireland's Children's Literature...

Often when we are considering publishing a manuscript we send it out to external readers for their opinion. Sometimes we feel that we need a young person’s perspective. Sometimes we...