In his role as Laureate na n’Óg, the Children’s Laureate of Ireland, Eoin Colfer created a national storytelling project. Once Upon a Place, a collection of stories and poems by Irish writers, is a selection of the contributions to the project beautifully illustrated by PJ Lynch. Each of the writers tells a story of a magical place although, as Colfer points out in his introduction, “magic doesn’t have to be all skeleton detectives and fairy police forces and Expecto Patronum; sometimes it can be finding a euro, or meeting a lad who is double jointed or discovering a quiet spot to read your favourite book in.”
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