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This breathtaking book explores Ireland’s animals by habitat, the myths and legends associated with them, favourite folklore superstitions and famous real-life Irish dogs, horses and dolphins, among others! There’s so much to delve into, and readers will be totally absorbed by Kathy Burke’s detailed illustrations and her father John’s fabulous facts. From selkies and merrows to swans and salmon, from wolfhounds and elks to racehorses and greyhounds – there’s so much to learn in this Animalopedia of all things Irish!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kathi ‘Fatti’ Burke is an award-winning illustrator and artist. Her first book, Irelandopedia, won the Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards 2015. She is also the illustrator of Foclóiropedia, Historopedia and the Little Library series, written by her dad, John Burke. Having lived in Amsterdam and Dublin, she is now back home in Waterford City.
John Burke is a retired primary school teacher and was Teaching Principal from 1980 to 2009. He lives in Waterford City.
Published by Gill Books
Hardcover
96 pages
270 x 370 mm
ISBN 9781804582466
