{"id":629614,"date":"2026-09-19T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629614\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T13:50:10","slug":"kerry-authors-make-childrens-books-irelands-best-irish-books-of-2026-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/629614\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry authors make Children&#8217;s Books Ireland&#8217;s &#8216;Best Irish Books of 2026&#8217; list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three titles from Kerry authors and illustrators feature on &#8216;The Best Irish Books of 2026&#8217; list.<\/p>\n<p>The list complied by <a href=\"https:\/\/childrensbooksireland.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Children&#8217;s Books Ireland<\/a> aims to showcase the best publications across fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels and verse.<\/p>\n<p>The Kerry inclusions are &#8216;Lulu&#8217;s Perfect Hideout&#8217; by Anna McQuinn, &#8216;The Song of The Sun&#8217;\u00a0by Olivia Hope and &#8216;Then We&#8217;ll Be Happy&#8217; by Alan Carrigan.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Elaina Ryan says it\u2019s important that children in Kerry can access stories that reflect their own lived experience, and the rich culture and diversity of life in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three titles from Kerry authors and illustrators feature on &#8216;The Best Irish Books of 2026&#8217; list. The list&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,267285,43],"class_list":["post-629614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kerry-authors","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}