Children’s books
Click Clack, Crocodile’s Back by Kathryn White and Joelle Dreidemy (Little Tiger Press, €7.55) will delight three to five-year-olds with its clever oneupmanship by the jungle animals that are preyed upon by Crocodile. As he slips silently through the water, ‘slyly disguised as the trunk of a tree, ready to snatch you and eat you for tea,’ their fear is palpable. But clever monkey has a plan. With playful rhyme and colourful illustrations, this book is laugh-aloud fun.
Kicking On is by Dave Hannigan (O’Brien Press, €7.99). When American Shaun Reedy, fresh from a traumatic Super Bowl loss, arrives in Dromtarry, he immediately gets involved with the village’s U-11 Gaelic football team. His fresh ideas, enthusiasm, and his refusal to accept defeat when the very existence of the club is threatened, is an inspiration to Peter, Davey and their teammates. The story bounds along authentically from match to match, with the usual scattering of last-minute goals and points. Inevitably Reedy has to return to the States to lay his own ghosts to rest, but not before he solves the club’s problems. Age 9+
