Paddy Donnelly is an Irish author and illustrator living in Belgium, who has illustrated many children’s books, including the award-winning Fox & Son Tailers, and Badger Books, The Upside-down Lighthouse, The Golden Hare, The Vanishing Lake and Dodos Are Not Extinct. He has been nominated twice for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration and in 2023 he won the Judges’ Special Award at the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards. The Golden Hare won Children's Book of the Year (Junior) at the Irish Book Awards, 2024, and was also longlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize and winner of the 2024 Indie Picture Book Award.Paddy has also won the Judges’ Special Award at the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards, the LAI Biennial Book Award, the Ghradam Réics Carló and has four times been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. His books have been published worldwide, in many languages.

The book is filled with beautiful imagery and wonderfully funny illustrations, packed with so much detail that you discover something new each time you read it. It’s a delightful story. I would highly recommend it, perfect for classroom read-alouds, a cozy bedtime cuddle, or simply to inspire imaginative dreams of what could be. I would give this book 10/10.

Paddy Donnelly is an Irish author and illustrator living in Belgium, who has illustrated many children’s books, including the award-winning Fox & Son Tailers, and Badger Books, The Upside-down Lighthouse, The Golden Hare, The Vanishing Lake and Dodos Are Not Extinct. He has been nominated twice for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration and in 2023 he won the Judges’ Special Award at the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards. The Golden Hare won Children's Book of the Year (Junior) at the Irish Book Awards, 2024, and was also longlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize and winner of the 2024 Indie Picture Book Award.Paddy has also won the Judges’ Special Award at the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards, the LAI Biennial Book Award, the Ghradam Réics Carló and has four times been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. His books have been published worldwide, in many languages.

The book is filled with beautiful imagery and wonderfully funny illustrations, packed with so much detail that you discover something new each time you read it. It’s a delightful story. I would highly recommend it, perfect for classroom read-alouds, a cozy bedtime cuddle, or simply to inspire imaginative dreams of what could be. I would give this book 10/10.