SHONA SHIRLEY MACDONALD: The Amazing Jam

FREE EVENT

We're excited to welcome author and illustrator, Shona Shirley Macdonald to the bookshop for a special under 5's stoytime with her brand new picture book, The Amazing Jam!

About the book:
Grub loves to travel the world, jamming with his band. He wants to try something new, so he decides to enter a jam-making competition. Singing crazy music as the jam bubbles, has Grub created the most amazing jam ever?

About the authors:
Shona Shirley Macdonald is an award-winning illustrator/author, originally from Scotland and now living by the sea in County Waterford. She studied stop-motion animation at Edinburgh College of Art, and now works mainly on children’s books. Her debut picture book The Pooka Party was selected for the IBBY International Honours List, and nominated for a CBI Award, Irish Book Award and LAI Award. Her illustrated titles include An Féileacán agus an Rí written by Máire Zepf, which won the Gradam Réics Carló, and The Moon Spun Round: W.B. Yeats for Children, edited by Noreen Doody. Her work has been exhibited throughout Ireland in both solo and group shows, and internationally at the Bratislava Illustration Biennial.