This month in This Awful Awesome Life we are celebrating Irish authors and contemporary women authors from around the world who write for children and young adults. We’re also celebrating spring and baseball. We have some fun picks for your children.
Now is a great time to take your children to the library and show them our tax dollars at work.
Most funding for libraries comes from city, county, and state taxes. Libraries also receive grants from businesses and foundations. Some libraries charge nominal fees for programs and levy fines for overdue books or movies. The majority of federal funding for libraries is distributed through the Institute of Museum and Library Services to each state through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). The Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) grant programs from the U.S. Department of Education supports school libraries working to foster reading skills for young readers. In case you need it, this is another reason the Department of Education is so vital. Preserving LSTA is also important because $189.3 million in LSTA funds help more than 120,000 public, academic, government, and special libraries advance entrepreneurship, employment, and education in communities all across the United States. LSTA helps fund STEM and STEAM programs to prepare students of all ages for today’s job markets. LSTA also funds business development assistance programs for entrepreneurs and small business owners provided by business and technology outreach librarians.
Irish Authors for children and YA:
For Children:
Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Stories (for ages 6 and up)
Derek Landy: Skulduggery Pleasant and Demon Road series (ages 9 and up)
Pat O’Shea: The Hounds of the Morrigan (ages 9 and up)
For Teens and YA:
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl series (ages 10 and up)
Moïra Fowley-Doyle – The Accident Season and All the Bad Apples
Louise O’Neil – Asking for it; Only Ever Yours; and After the Silence
Claire Hennessy – Nothing Tastes as Good and Like Other Girls
Deidre O’Sullivan – Needlework
Sarah Webb – The Weather Girls; Ask Amy Green; and When the Boys are Away
Ciara Smyth – The Falling in Love Montage and Not My Problem
Popular Children’s Books by Women Authors:
Jan Brett – The Mitten (for ages 1-5); Town Mouse, City Mouse (for ages 2-8); The First Dog (for ages 3-8)
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit (For infants- kindergarteners); The Fairy Caravan (for ages 5-10)
Beverly Cleary – Henry Huggins series (for ages 6-9); Ramona series (for ages 6-8); The Mouse and the Motorcycle series (for ages 5-9)
Vashti Harrison – Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (for age 4-9); Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History (for ages 4-9); Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World (for ages 4-9)
Judy Blume: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (for ages 8-9) ); Freckle Juice (for ages 7-8); Superfudge (for ages 7-10)
Grace Lin: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (for ages 7-10); Starry River of the Sky (for ages 7-11); When the Sea Turned to Silver (for ages 7-10)
Astrid Lindgren: The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (for ages 5-9); The Tomten and the Fox (for ages 3-6); Karlsson on the Roof (for ages 5-10)
Jacqueline Woodson:
Yuyi Morales – Lucero (Bright Star - for ages 4-8); Dreamers (for ages 4-8); Nochecita (for ages 2-6)
Books about Spring:
Spencer Knows Spring by Tiffany Obeng for Babies – 6 years
Don’t Touch That Flower by Alice Hemming for ages 2-5
The Great Garden Escape by Erica L. Clymer for ages 3-7
The Hidden Rainbow: A Springtime Book for Kids by Christie Matheson for ages 4-8
How to Build a Leprechaun Trap by Larissa Juliano for ages 4-10
Books about Baseball:
Let’s Pay Baseball by Ginger Swift for ages Baby- 2 years
The Berenstain Bears: We Love Baseball by Mike Berenstain for ages 2-7
Pete the Cat: Play Ball! By James Dean for ages 3-6
Inspiring Baseball Stories for Kids by Ben Byde for ages 7-10
Inspirational Baseball Stories for Young Readers by Mike Johnson for ages 8-11
Sources for this article:
https://missy.ie/12-irish-authors-for-teen-and-ya-reading-lists-missy/