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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m leaving for Ireland in a few hours and looking forward to a busy and interesting couple of weeks there. First up, I&#8217;m spending a few days in Cork, visiting the Eglantine School and Crab Lane School &#8211; a big HELLO to any of the pupils there who are reading this -I am so looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s Book Festival</title>
		<link>http://maevefriel.com/blog/?p=855</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children&#8217;s Books Ireland are holding their summer school next weekend in the National Library of Ireland, Dublin. One of the highlights will be the opening address by the newly appointed  Irish Children&#8217;s Laureate, the  illustrator  Niamh Sharkey. I first met Niamh at a CBI conference about twelve years ago when she had just published  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Maurice Sendak</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Here is another interesting article  and personal recollections  about the amazing (and obviously grumpy) Maurice Sendak who died on May 8th. The writer historian Leonard Marcus met him on several occasions. I love the mischievous story about Sendak&#8217;s reaction to a poisonous review of Dear Mili by  Salman Rushdie.]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know the one about the cat and the moon?</title>
		<link>http://maevefriel.com/blog/?p=830</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children's Poet of the Year]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a chance for all you budding poets. Hawk&#8217;s Well Theatre  in Sligo have just announced the Hawk&#8217;s Well Children&#8217;s Poet of the Year 2012.  It&#8217;s for 8-10 year olds, essentially children in 3rd and 4th class in national schools. The rules are simple: your poem must be called The Cat and the Moon and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Lawrence in Madrid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night as I was walking around Madrid I was surprised to come across a large crowd of excited young people outside the Capitol cinema.  Next thing there  was a huge cheer and outbreak of clapping and there, on the red carpet  and on the giant screen dominating the square was none other than Jennifer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King&#8217;s College Alicante First Literary Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a great day last week visiting King&#8217;s College, the British International School in Alicante where they were holding their first ever Literary Festival, a week-long extravaganza of poetry, story-telling, artwork, creative writing and performance. The students at both the primary and secondary school here follow the British curriculum. Of the 120 students I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quartet of winning libraries</title>
		<link>http://maevefriel.com/blog/?p=801</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookshops]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everybody who has written to me since the World Book Day events in Dublin, Shannon, Lisdoonvarna, Ennistymon, Sixmilebridge and Galway. It was great fun to meet you, see you demonstrate your inventive broom-flying techniques and, best of all, to hear your fantastic stories about gorillas in top hats,  a gun concealed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Edible Book Festival 2012</title>
		<link>http://maevefriel.com/blog/?p=790</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever you are in the world, if you love reading and you love baking cakes, why don&#8217;t you enter the (virtual) edible book festival? It&#8217;s a delicious idea for children and parents, for teachers, after school clubs, book clubs, library groups, even bakers &#8211; and you have until March 16th to get in your entry. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Book Day</title>
		<link>http://maevefriel.com/blog/?p=786</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children's Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As everybody knows, we are celebrating World Book Day in Ireland and the UK on March 1st &#8211; except that World Book Day doesn&#8217;t seem to be content with one day and is taking over the whole week. See the World Book Day website to see what is going on near you. I am delighted to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nominations for Irish Children&#8217;s Laureate</title>
		<link>http://maevefriel.com/blog/?p=781</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maeve Friel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have only two days to nominate your choice for Ireland&#8217;s 2nd Children&#8217;s Laureate  - the Laureate na nóg is an initiative of the Arts Council with the support of the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (OMCYA), Children&#8217;s Books Ireland, Poetry Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. This important [...]]]></description>
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