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Eric Carle was born on 25th June 1929 and is probably one of the most famous children’s authors of all time. Two of his best known books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See? are staples in infant classrooms. There are so many themed lessons out there based on [...]

Eoin Colfer is one of Ireland’s most famous children’s authors. He is most famous for his character Artemis Fowl in the series of the same name. However, he has written many other books covering a wide variety of themes. One of my favourites is Benny and Omar, which covers the theme of multiculturalism nicely. Colfer [...]

On 17th April 2007, according to the People’s History web site, The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien was released in North America and Europe. The book was developed by Christopher Tolkien over twelve years, and was taken from the unfinished material written by his father. The Children of Húrin was started in 1918. J. [...]

Jeff Kinney, the author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, has his birthday on 19th February. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is about a boy named Greg Heffley and his struggles in middle school. Diary of a Wimpy Kid first appeared on FunBrain.com in 2004 where it was read 20 million times. The hardcover was [...]

Image and Text from Wikipedia: Judy Blume  is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages. Blume’s novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle racism (Iggie’s House), menstruation (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.), divorce [...]

Charles Perrault, born 12th January 1628 is noted as being the forefather of the fairy tale. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat [...]

Gulliver’s Travels is one of Jonathan Swift’s most famous pieces of works. Swift was born on 30th November, 1667, and is one of Ireland’s most famous authors of all time. Jonathan Swift was also a satirist and famously advised the British monarchy to allow the Irish eat their own children as a way of combatting [...]

Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was born on 29 November 1898 was a novelist, poet and essayist from Belfast, Ireland. He is known for both his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy. For our children, the Chronicles of Narnia, are the stories that [...]