Look! LOOK! @afharrold.bsky.social (yes, the one who wrote The Imaginary, and The Song From Somewhere Else, and The Worlds We Leave Behind!) has read and enjoyed #TheSilverRoad! I also have it on good authority that he enjoyed #SwordOfTheSun a while back. *excited bouncing*
Book cover. The Silver Road by Sinéad O'Hart. A rainbow-hued forest with an Irish elk carrying two figures on its back.
I finished reading this Irish myth-weaving tale of a girl who gets roped in to stopping the rebirth of chaos god Balor of the One Eye, while riding an Itish elk with her school bully. Cracking stuff. #TheSilverRoad by @sineadohart.bsky.social. #KidLit #MG #mythic #adventure
Screenshot of Amazon's homepage showing The Silver Road as Number 9 in the Multicultural Tales and Myths for Children category, on top of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Tickled to see #TheSilverRoad at Number 9 in Ama*on's Multicultural Tales for Children category, alongside Neil Gaiman and Alan Garner and many other luminaries. Haven't bought your copy yet? Here's a handy link:
www.waterstones.com/book/the-sil...
The Silver Road graphic: the book sits on a shelf on a blue and green background, with the text 'Specsavers Children's Book of the Year - Senior Shortlist' in the top left corner and the An Post Irish Book Awards logo (a white partially open book with 'An Post Irish Book Awards' on the cover, and the hashtag #ReadersWanted underneath) appears in the top right. The Specsavers logo appears in the lower left hand corner.
Still time to vote for #TheSilverRoad! It's in the running for the An Post/Specsavers Children's Book of the Year (Senior), and the public get a say on who wins.
Vote here: irishbookawards.ie/vote/
You might win a Book Token for your trouble! And all votes for my little book are so appreciated.
A copy of The Silver Road (a book, the cover decorated in shades of blue, purple, black and silver, with the silhouette of an elk/stag in the middle of the image, carrying two children on its back, with trees and flowers and leaves in the foreground; the book's title appears in organic, leaf-decorated silver font above the elk's head, and the author's name - Sinéad O'Hart - appears in silver print beneath the elk's hooves) being held up against the backdrop of bookshelves by a white person's hand. In the corner is the logo of the An Post Irish Book Awards (a green symbol like an open book, in a white circle, with the words 'Shortlisted 2023' written in green text around the edge of the white circle)
#TheSilverRoad has been shortlisted for the An Post/Specsavers Children's Book of the Year (Senior) - and it's a very big deal! I'm so delighted.
The winner is partly decided by public vote - so, if you have a sec, please do vote for me: irishbookawards.ie/vote/
Thank you! #ReadersWanted
