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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

#publisherweekly #livingthedream #author #kidlit #writerscommunity #nonfiction So delighted 🙌. Read the full review ❤️⚓️ here. ⏬️ www.publishersweekly.com/9781668944882

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Amazing 👏 news. My book is available for preorder. www.deirdrelaide.com #Writingcommunity #kidlit #nonfiction #picturebooks #educational #lessons #teachers #librarians ##schoollibrarian #teacher

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Dive into a NEW #LitLinks lesson: 3 ways shipwrecks can help students explore lyrical language Explore literary devices Challenge students' imagination & creativity 💫 patriciamnewman.com/?p=12792 @deirdre_laide @tilburyhouse @scbwiIreland @SCBWI @bookendsliterary.bsky.social

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

When your debut, nonfiction, picture book appears on the publisher's website 😍 🫠📚. Pinch me. @tilburyhousepublishers #WritingCommunity #kidlit #nonfiction #debut #teacher #writerslife #lesson #STEAM

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

When THE END is just the beginning. I sent my completed MG novel to my agent. I really hope she likes it. #author #writingcommunity #middlegrade #onsub 🏞❤️☕️✨️🧶👧🐾

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

📍John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Manchester, UK.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

☘️What a day... beautiful. 📍Banna Beach, Co. Kerry, Ireland. ☘️

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The bay. 📍Blennerville, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Hello Sunshine! Beautiful ❤️ day. 📍Fenit Beach, Co. Kerry.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Current mood... waiting to hear news on a special submission. #kidlit #writers #writingcommunity #onsub

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

So beautiful 😍 today. 📍Fenit, Co.Kerry, Ireland

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Windy walk. Sometimes, it's the simple days I cherish the most. ❤️ 📍Fenit, Co. Kerry, Ireland #feelingblessed #gratitude #precious

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

❤️🎵 Dance like nobody's watching. 🎵❤️ #kidlitart #illustration #doodles

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

📍Ballybunion Beach, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

📍Old Kenmare Road, Co. Kerry, Ireland. #Ireland #hike

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

📍Old Kenmare Road, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Beautiful and fresh. #Ireland #hike

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Sister love ❤️. My 3 little women.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

❄️ Beautiful day. 📍Fenit, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Morning in📍my mother's garden.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

My town is covered in a layer of magic. Beautiful ❤️ ❄️ 📍Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Winter walks. 📍Banna, Co. Kerry.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Old Irish proverb/seanfhocal... Giorraíonn beirt bóthar (Having company shortens the road/journey). As I walked behind my eldest brother and my youngest daughter today, their chatting made me smile. 📍Co. Kerry, Ireland.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Dawn 📍my mother's garden. Red sky in morning, a shepherd's warning.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Grateful for winter walks. 🙏 📍Fenit, Co. Kerry, Ireland

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Today marks the 20-year anniversary of the tsunami that devasted many lives. Christmas 2004, my friends and I decided to vacation in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. (thread)

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Christmas 🎄 💓. Sea glass hunting before dinner. 📍Cockleshell Beach, Co. Kerry.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Christmas 🎄 Eve cobweb clearing.📍Banna Strand, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Letter to the editorial section of the newspaper. ♥️😪Christmas 🎄 can be tough for some.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This beautifully illustrated collection of classic Irish poems, illustrated by the talented Erin Brown will bring you from bee-loud glades to fields of light, from purple glens to caves beneath the glittering waves. A beautiful gift for Christmas. #BookElves2024 #OBrienPress

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My children love this delightful board book by @erikamcgann.bsky.social about a curious little puffling who lives on Skellig Michael in Ireland. @gerrydalyart.bsky.social gorgeous illustrations give a glimpse of the landscape of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Skellig Michael. #kidlit

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Tales from a typewriter...🎄❤️

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My class love @leonaforde1 Milly McCarthy with fantastic illustrations @KarenHarte. Milly's class is gearing up for their festive end-of-term concert, where everyone gets to showcase their favourite talent, but the occasion soon turns into a fiasco. @Gill_Books #BookElves2024 #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

My recommendation #BookElves2024 #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks for today is a beautiful middle-grade novel in verse FIA AND THE LAST SNOW DEER by Eilish Fisher with gorgeous illustrations by Dermot Flynn. ❄️ verse novel ❄️ ancient Ireland ❄️ quest ❄️ mythical ❄️ eternal winter ❤️ STUNNING READ

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Look at this stunning picture book, OVER THE RED BRICK CHIMNEY written bu Una Leavy and illustrated by Shannon Bergin @OBrienPress #DiscoverlrishKidsBooks #BookElves2024. This beautiful info fiction PB tells the story of migration and Finn's quest to help Little Goose.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This graphic novel series is an action-packed, quest adventure.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This graphic novel series deals with self-image, bullying, navigating friendships.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

These are quirky graphic stories and the art is fabulous.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Kicking off my recommendations for #BookElves2024 #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks with this beautiful book.Síne Quinn's entrancing collection of lesser-known Irish fairy folk tales with stunning illustrations by artist Dermot Flynn will enchant young lovers of the mystical aged 8-12yr.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I'm excited 😊 to be chosen as a book elf for #BookElves2024 with #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks. Over the next week, I'll be recommending some gorgeous book gift ideas 💡 for your little ones with an added ✨️ Irish sparkle.

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

When your youngest plays with your phone.😊🥰

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Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hike life on the aptly named📍Cardiac Hill ❤️🔥, Killarney, Kerry, Ireland 🇮🇪 #hike #outdoors #Ireland #kerry

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