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It’s an exploration of all Ireland’s animals … it’s an ANIMALOPEDIA!
Get ready to EXPLORE Ireland’s animal habitats and NATIVE CREATURES. Buckle up and DISCOVER IRELAND animal by animal, as you never have before!
Avid animal lovers of any age will be totally absorbed by Kathi Burke’s DETAILED ILLUSTRATIONS and her father John’s FABULOUS FACTS and STORIES on every page.
Discover the bugs that have been living in Ireland for MILLIONS OF YEARS, and the animals that are now EXTINCT!
Find out why hares are associated with witches, and why cats were once considered MORE VALUABLE THAN COWS. Read the story of ST BRIGID AND THE FOX, meet ALEC THE GOOSE and learn how FIONN MAC CUMHAILL gained all the world’s knowledge just from biting his thumb! From PÚCAS to SELKIES, uncover the MYTHS and FOLKLORE associated with some of Ireland’s favourite creatures; practise some of our favourite ANIMAL SAYINGS and so much more!
So, get FACT-HUNTING, and soon you’ll have an ANIMALOPEDIC knowledge all by yourself!
Kathi Burke is an award-winning illustrator and artist with a passion for all things Irish. Her first book, Irelandopedia, won the Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards 2015 and Historopedia was nominated for the Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Junior) Award in 2016. She is also the illustrator of Foclóiropedia and the Little Library series, written by her dad, John Burke. She lives in in Waterford City.
John Burke is a retired primary school teacher and was Teaching Principal of Passage East National School from 1980 to 2009. He has always been interested in environmental studies, local history and exploring Ireland, all aspects he brings to his children’s books. He lives in Waterford City.