Sarah Webb is an award-winning children’s writer. She won Irish
Book awards for Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the
World (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill) and A Sailor Went to Sea,
Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood (illustrated by
Steve McCarthy).
Sarah runs creative writing clubs for young writers, reviews
children’s books for the Irish Independent, programmes many
children’s and family events and works part-time in a children’s
bookshop. Passionate about bringing children and books together,
Sarah was awarded the Children’s Books Ireland Award for
Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books in Ireland.
www.sarahwebb.ie
a companion publication to the fantastic Blazing A Trail … vivid
portraits by Graham Corcoran … Sarah Webb’s accessible prose
delivers key and fun facts. This title is a great addition to
school bookshelves with lots of scope for further reading and
project-based work … discover … be inspired
*InTouch Magazine*
incredible true-life stories … concise one-page biographies of
well-known and lesser-known figures from all walks of Irish history
and contemporary life, from revolutionaries like Pádraig Pearse and
Elizabeth O’Farrell to rock-stars like Bono and Hozier. However, it
is the lesser-known stories - like that of American Civil War
soldier Albert DJ Cashier and adventurer Madam Dragonfly - that
really sing. Graham Corcoran’s chiselled portraits dominate
suggestive background landscapes, which use a few key details to
support Webb’s pithy prose’
*Irish Times*
amazing lives that will inspire young dreamers … provides plenty of
inspiration for the country’s next generation of movers and
shakers
*Evening Echo*
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