On March 12th last year I was sitting in a blustery, empty car park in Blackpool, Lancashire, eating a bland prepacked sandwich beside a giant mural of Barry from The Chuckle Brothers. I was feeling pretty good about myself.
Sure, school closures had just been announced and the St Patrickâs Festival (at which I had an author event) had been cancelled, but Iâd just finished a school talk about my childrenâs books. It had been the last of a four-day book tour of England and my 39th author event in 40 days.
Irish events included every Dublin city library, several bookshops, a delightfully raucous event with illustrator Ben Mantle at Liberty Hall Theatre, a school in the Dublin Mountains, classes of kids spread out on the floor of OâMahonyâs Booksellers in Limerick, a packed-out art workshop in the Hugh Lane Gallery, a lot of M50 miles, a couple of flights, and a handful of hotel breakfast buffets I now regret not taking full advantage of.
Updated / Thursday, 4 Feb 2021
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Welcome to Creative Bursts, the short series of creative activities to do at home with your children. Creative Bursts are created by Sarah Webb and supported by MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland.
Sarah Webb is an award-winning children s writer and children s book champion. Her children’s books include A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea, illustrated by Steve McCarthy which won the Irish Book Awards Junior Category, Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World, illustrated by Lauren O’Neill which won the Irish Book Awards Senior Category, and Animal Crackers with Alan Nolan.