Our love lives on

When Benji Bennett’s four-year-old son, Adam, died of a fatal brain tumour in 2007, the Dublin-based dad felt an overwhelming need to do something.

“I felt Adam was so special and he was here for a reason, and that reason was to spread love around the world. I had always told him everyday that I loved him. So I started writing stories about Adam,” he says.

Prior to Christmas, Benji Bennett’s latest book, Adam’s Greatest Inventions, was nominated for the Specsavers ‘children’s book of the year’ awards — it was the fourth consecutive year that his books had been short-listed.