22TRA178 World Book Day Celebration with Award-Winning Children’s Writer, Sarah Webb (P)

Date:       Thursday 3 March 2022
Time:       1.15 pm - 2 pm
Venue:    Online via Zoom

To celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 3^rd March join award-winning children’s writer, Sarah Webb for a live online event.

Sarah will talk about growing up in Dublin, becoming a reader and what books mean to her. She will share some of her favourite childhood reads and books she loves today. She works part-time in a children’s bookshop and she reads a lot of children’s books!

She will read from her latest novel for children, The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street and talk about how the book was created from start to finish.

And finally, she will take questions from the children about books, reading and writing and try to answer as many of them as she can.

Bio of Presenter: Sarah Webb

Sarah Webb LOVES books! She has several jobs, all book related. Firstly, she is an award-winning children’s writer. Her books include Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the World (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill) and A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood (illustrated by Steve McCarthy), both winners of Irish Book Awards.

She runs creative writing clubs for children and teens, reviews children’s books for the Irish Independent, and programmes children’s and family events for book festivals and MoLI (Museum of Literature Ireland). She also works part-time in a children’s bookshop, Half-Way Up the Stairs, where she is Events Manager.

Sarah is passionate about bringing children and books together and was awarded the Children’s Books Ireland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books in Ireland.

Her latest book is The Little Beekeeper of Henrietta Street (illustrated by Rachel Corcoran) for readers of age nine plus.

www.sarahwebb.ie

Twitter: @sarahwebbishere

Instagram: @sarahwebbwriter