Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Award winners to visit Clare County Library

Winners of the prestigious Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Award are scheduled to visit Clare County Library for Children’s Book Festival 2010. Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick has won the 20th Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Award for her stunning picture book There. The results were announced on Monday 24th May 2010 at a ceremony in The Hugh Lane Gallery where Marie-Louise was presented with a cheque for €10,000 by Senator David Norris, Sean Brett, Marketing Controller Premier Foods and Chairperson of the Judging Panel, Maire Uí Mhaicín. This is Marie-Louise’s third win in these prestigious awards, winning in 2001 and 2003 with two of her previous picture books You, Me and the Big Blue Sea and Izzy and Skunk.

Clare County Library is delighted that Marie-Louise will be one of the main attractions for this year’s Children’s Book Festival which will be celebrated in all branches throughout the county in October 2010. Clare author Bob Burke won the Eilis Dillon Award in this year’s Children’s Book of the Year honours for his recent and much publicized book, The Third Pig Detective Agency. In it Harry Pig, one of the three renowned little pigs whom we’ve all been introduced to in our childhood years, has grown up to be a private detective. Described by critics as a book for everyone, the wit and charm of this publication will entice readers young and old. Bob Burke will also tour library branches during CBF 2010. Look out for both authors at a branch of Clare County Library near you.