YOUNG READERS: Eason is hoping to engage and inspire young readers during this year’s Children’s SpringFest, with its first ever Read-a-thon.

IT’S one of the publishing sensations of the year, largely due to its resonance with any parent who has ever experienced the “joy” of a wide-eyed toddler at bedtime.

NINE-year-old Timmy fixed Eamon Gilmore with a hard stare and demanded: “How do we know you are not lying, because all the parties like Fianna Fáil said the same things?”