MaryEsther Judy
@fallenstarmary.bsky.social
Childrens books reader, reviewer, blogger & editor; artist; weaver of words & wool; and good human (I hope)
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We have to protect and support this woman
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have to protect and support this woman
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From tomorrow, 5th Dec #BookElves2025 will be on hand to recommend brilliant Irish books for all ages - from tots to teens.
if you'd like a recommendation - ask away below. I'd be delighted to help!
And I'll be posting some of my favourite Irish books of the year every day. #discoveririshkidsbooks
if you'd like a recommendation - ask away below. I'd be delighted to help!
And I'll be posting some of my favourite Irish books of the year every day. #discoveririshkidsbooks
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
From tomorrow, 5th Dec #BookElves2025 will be on hand to recommend brilliant Irish books for all ages - from tots to teens.
if you'd like a recommendation - ask away below. I'd be delighted to help!
And I'll be posting some of my favourite Irish books of the year every day. #discoveririshkidsbooks
if you'd like a recommendation - ask away below. I'd be delighted to help!
And I'll be posting some of my favourite Irish books of the year every day. #discoveririshkidsbooks
Here it is! Week one of Marys' Advent Calendar of Kids Books! Six days, six books & six of my favourites for the time of year! @andersenpress.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social
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December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Here it is! Week one of Marys' Advent Calendar of Kids Books! Six days, six books & six of my favourites for the time of year! @andersenpress.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social
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Announcement! It's time for the return of Marys' Advent Calendar of Books!
#FallenStarStories #AdventCalendarOfBooks #jolabokaflod
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#FallenStarStories #AdventCalendarOfBooks #jolabokaflod
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December 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Announcement! It's time for the return of Marys' Advent Calendar of Books!
#FallenStarStories #AdventCalendarOfBooks #jolabokaflod
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#FallenStarStories #AdventCalendarOfBooks #jolabokaflod
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And the winners are... a quick but enthusiastic shout out to the winners of the #AnPostIrishBookAwards 2025, in the childrens categories. #FallenStarStories #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
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November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
And the winners are... a quick but enthusiastic shout out to the winners of the #AnPostIrishBookAwards 2025, in the childrens categories. #FallenStarStories #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
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Today is Black Friday...so today of all shopping days, support your small, local businesses, artists & craftspeople. Support your neighbours & community. They need you; big businesses don't. #BuyLocal #supportsmallbusiness #livegalwaylovegalwayshopgalway #buyconsciously
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Today is Black Friday...so today of all shopping days, support your small, local businesses, artists & craftspeople. Support your neighbours & community. They need you; big businesses don't. #BuyLocal #supportsmallbusiness #livegalwaylovegalwayshopgalway #buyconsciously
Welcome to....Fear Files: Hide and Seek by Christopher Edge: This is incredibly, deliciously creepy; so scary; so riveting, full-on & suspenseful; Short, sharp & completely delectable. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Welcome to....Fear Files: Hide and Seek by Christopher Edge: This is incredibly, deliciously creepy; so scary; so riveting, full-on & suspenseful; Short, sharp & completely delectable. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
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Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate. #Thanksgiving2025
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who celebrate. #Thanksgiving2025
Harriet Tubman: Force of Nature by Caoline Brewer: beautiful book reviewed for Childrens’ Books Ireland/Inis Magazine; life of Harriet Tubman presented as poetry; factual, expressed lyrically, flowing, moving & entirely memorable. Just beautiful.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Harriet Tubman: Force of Nature by Caoline Brewer: beautiful book reviewed for Childrens’ Books Ireland/Inis Magazine; life of Harriet Tubman presented as poetry; factual, expressed lyrically, flowing, moving & entirely memorable. Just beautiful.
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After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed #kindness & #community, even in the darkest times #WomensArt #WorldKindnessDay
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed #kindness & #community, even in the darkest times #WomensArt #WorldKindnessDay
The Daily Bear: LB invites you to see the world with fresh eyes: Baxters' View by Murphys' Sketches; full of life & understanding, warmhearted & playful; slow down & experience the world with fresh eyes! @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social #LBKoala
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November 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Daily Bear: LB invites you to see the world with fresh eyes: Baxters' View by Murphys' Sketches; full of life & understanding, warmhearted & playful; slow down & experience the world with fresh eyes! @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social #LBKoala
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Lilys' Monster by Cliff McNish: a psychological, chilling story that exams grief & haunting; complex, emotional, intriguing, consuming; a ghost story that will stay with you for a long time. This is one you cannot out down. @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
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November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Lilys' Monster by Cliff McNish: a psychological, chilling story that exams grief & haunting; complex, emotional, intriguing, consuming; a ghost story that will stay with you for a long time. This is one you cannot out down. @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
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Where The Shadows Hide by @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social PSI are back with their most gripping investigation yet; intriguing & emotional;twists in both the plot & the lives of our characters; intense; thrilling ghost story. @theobrienpress.bsky.social
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November 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Where The Shadows Hide by @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social PSI are back with their most gripping investigation yet; intriguing & emotional;twists in both the plot & the lives of our characters; intense; thrilling ghost story. @theobrienpress.bsky.social
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We are BEYOND delighted to have two nominations for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing!
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We are BEYOND delighted to have two nominations for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Writing!
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
A FIX OF LIGHT and SOLO!
Huge congratulations to YA debut authors Kel Menton and Gráinne O’Brien!
@kelmenton.bsky.social @grainneobrien.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
"Oh! Hello...I have been waiting. Are the others coming?....Good. I'll put the kettle on...."
#HappyHalloween🎃👻🧙🧙🧙🎃
#HappyHalloween🎃👻🧙🧙🧙🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Oh! Hello...I have been waiting. Are the others coming?....Good. I'll put the kettle on...."
#HappyHalloween🎃👻🧙🧙🧙🎃
#HappyHalloween🎃👻🧙🧙🧙🎃
Tonight....we fly. Happy Halloween!
#HappyHalloween🎃👻🧙
#HappyHalloween🎃👻🧙
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Tonight....we fly. Happy Halloween!
#HappyHalloween🎃👻🧙
#HappyHalloween🎃👻🧙
Late October rainbows bring the most joy...and the most rejuvenation. #OctoberOctober #octoberrainbow🌈🍁
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Late October rainbows bring the most joy...and the most rejuvenation. #OctoberOctober #octoberrainbow🌈🍁
Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica. 175mph sustained winds, 13ft storm surge, 40 inches of rainfall in some areas. Beyond catastrophic. #hurricanemelissa
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica. 175mph sustained winds, 13ft storm surge, 40 inches of rainfall in some areas. Beyond catastrophic. #hurricanemelissa
The Cloud Kingdom by Máire Zepf & Andrew Whitson: stories within a story; seamlessly woven together; Magical, imaginative, playful & utterly, magnificently beautiful. One to cherish. @littleislandbooks.bsky.social #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
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October 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The Cloud Kingdom by Máire Zepf & Andrew Whitson: stories within a story; seamlessly woven together; Magical, imaginative, playful & utterly, magnificently beautiful. One to cherish. @littleislandbooks.bsky.social #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
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Congratulations, Catherine Connolly!!! I could not be happier with this result!
Left-leaning independent Catherine Connolly wins Irish presidential election www.nbcnews.com/world/irelan...
Left-leaning independent Catherine Connolly wins Irish presidential election
Connolly, 68, said she would champion diversity and be a voice for peace, one that “builds on our policy of neutrality.”
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October 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Congratulations, Catherine Connolly!!! I could not be happier with this result!
Just a reminder...the time goes back one hour at 2am.So an extra hour gets added tomorrow morning. It all happens online now. But I miss the simple little ritual of setting the clocks back. It felt somehow...human? Anyway, happy time change eve, everyone. #TimeChange🕰
October 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Just a reminder...the time goes back one hour at 2am.So an extra hour gets added tomorrow morning. It all happens online now. But I miss the simple little ritual of setting the clocks back. It felt somehow...human? Anyway, happy time change eve, everyone. #TimeChange🕰
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A good news story! Lovely idea 👏👏👏https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/24/booker-prize-launches-childrens-booker-frank-cottrell-boyce
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce
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October 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A good news story! Lovely idea 👏👏👏https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/24/booker-prize-launches-childrens-booker-frank-cottrell-boyce
Return to Old Ireland! Tír Na n'Og by @erikamcgann.bsky.social & Conor Busuttil & The Stolen Child by W.B.Yeats, illustrated by Erin Brown; glorious gifts that evoke a timeless, magical past. Perfect! @theobrienpress.bsky.social #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
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October 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Return to Old Ireland! Tír Na n'Og by @erikamcgann.bsky.social & Conor Busuttil & The Stolen Child by W.B.Yeats, illustrated by Erin Brown; glorious gifts that evoke a timeless, magical past. Perfect! @theobrienpress.bsky.social #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
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The Grand Central Cinema Club by Alan Nolan: Dublin 1937; a story that combines friendship, love of cinema & a renowned sneak-thief; imaginative, memorable, fast-paced, fun, clever, heart-warming; a five-star adventure! @theobrienpress.bsky.social
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October 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The Grand Central Cinema Club by Alan Nolan: Dublin 1937; a story that combines friendship, love of cinema & a renowned sneak-thief; imaginative, memorable, fast-paced, fun, clever, heart-warming; a five-star adventure! @theobrienpress.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, outside the U.S. Embassy in Dublin....
October 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Meanwhile, outside the U.S. Embassy in Dublin....