Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Muireann is a children's author and performer. Although a Cork City native, she spent much of her childhood in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht in Kerry where her father's family are from and is a proud Irish speaker. When she’s not writing books, dancing about on your TV screen or cooking up new shows or ideas, you'll find her in the sea, doodling in her sketchbook or most likely running around after her young and very energetic sons on the beaches of Tramore, Co. Waterford.
She hopes that this book will be the perfect excuse to fulfil a lifelong dream of getting a puppy and calling him Murphy!
Paddy Donnelly is an Irish author and illustrator living in Belgium, who has illustrated many children’s books, including Fox & Son Tailers, The Golden Hare, The Vanishing Lake and Dodos Are Not Extinct. He has been nominated twice for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration and in 2023 he won the Judges’ Special Award at the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards. His books have been published worldwide, in many languages.
Paddy introduced us to the imaginative, little fox Rory in Fox & Son Tailers, which was featured as a World Book Day book in 2025, was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards in 2022, and won the Literacy Association of Ireland Biennial Children’s Book Award in 2023. He hopes that this latest Ballybrush story will encourage parents and children to sit down and make a book together – just like Badger and Rory.
<p>A gentle, charming story of a little Skunk and his favourite teddy; so full of warmth, understanding & pure love that it will become a favourite for all</p>
- Fallen Star Stories,
<p>Simple, relatable and beautifully executed … a delightful tale of comfort lost and found … It is a joy to read aloud, thanks to Ní Chíobháin’s punchy sentences, easy rhythm and careful use of emboldening, exclamation points and capitalisation. The interplay of text and imagery works wonderfully well. With plenty of squiggly stink lines and details that invite pause, Donnelly’s bright, fun and characterful illustrations help us to understand just how much Sniffy (and Mama) means to Skunk. This is a story that will resonate with toddlers, preschoolers, infant class pupils, parents and anyone who has ever had something, or someone, that makes the world feel just right - Karen Campbell, mother of 3 and lover of children’s literature, Co. Wexford</p>
- Seomra Ranga,
Little Skunk loves playing with his cuddly toy, Sniffy.
Any time Skunk feels scared or sad, a sniff of Sniffy makes everything right.
But one day Sniffy goes missing and loses that special smell.
Skunk is heartbroken.
Can Mama help make Sniffy his old sniffeable self again?
Little Skunk loves playing with his cuddly toy, Sniffy. A sniff of Sniffy makes everything right. But one day Sniffy goes missing and loses that special smell. Can Mama help make Sniffy his old sniffeable self again?
Little Skunk loves playing with his cuddly toy, Sniffy.
Any time Skunk feels scared or sad, a sniff of Sniffy makes everything right.
But one day Sniffy goes missing and loses that special smell.
Skunk is heartbroken.
Can Mama help make Sniffy his old sniffeable self again?
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Muireann is a children's author and performer. Although a Cork City native, she spent much of her childhood in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht in Kerry where her father's family are from and is a proud Irish speaker. When she’s not writing books, dancing about on your TV screen or cooking up new shows or ideas, you'll find her in the sea, doodling in her sketchbook or most likely running around after her young and very energetic sons on the beaches of Tramore, Co. Waterford.
She hopes that this book will be the perfect excuse to fulfil a lifelong dream of getting a puppy and calling him Murphy!
Paddy Donnelly is an Irish author and illustrator living in Belgium, who has illustrated many children’s books, including Fox & Son Tailers, The Golden Hare, The Vanishing Lake and Dodos Are Not Extinct. He has been nominated twice for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration and in 2023 he won the Judges’ Special Award at the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards. His books have been published worldwide, in many languages.
Paddy introduced us to the imaginative, little fox Rory in Fox & Son Tailers, which was featured as a World Book Day book in 2025, was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards in 2022, and won the Literacy Association of Ireland Biennial Children’s Book Award in 2023. He hopes that this latest Ballybrush story will encourage parents and children to sit down and make a book together – just like Badger and Rory.