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The Irish Dad's Survival Guide
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O'Brien Press/Children's Books Ireland Design-A-Cover Competition

We are delighted, in association with Children's Books Ireland , to announce the winner of the 2010 Design-A-Cover competition, part of the hugely-successful Children's Book Festival: Adina McNulty from Ballina, Co Mayo.

A brand new edition of Michael Scott's werewolf mystery October Moon is due for publication in spring 2011 and we asked Ireland's young artists to create a brand new cover: you can see Adina's original entry and all the runners-up here.

Previous Winners

2009 winning cover Sophie Courtney (10) won our 2009 competition, with her new cover for The Lough Neagh Monster. You can see her entry, and the runners-up, here.
Holly Crowley Walsh Holly Crowley Walsh (left), who won our 2008 competition, certainly enjoyed having her design on the new edition of The Great Pig Escape. You can see her entry, and the runners-up, here.
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Click to browse or download our new 2011-2012 catalogues: general, children's and schools.

Congratulations to Anna Carey, winner of the Irish Book Awards Specsavers Children's Book Of The Year (senior category) award for The Real Rebecca, beating a highly-competitive field. Well done, Anna!
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