"Beth won't smile today. But who can cheer her up? Not Mummy, not Daddy, not Grandpa or Grandma. Not even silly Auntie Bea. Can anyone brighten Beth's mood? Can her big sister save the day?"
"When Mother tells her young son about a sea voyage they took some years earlier she adds, "but you were only a baby, you wouldn't remember." But, as the reader soon discovers, the boy has quite vivid memories--of increasingly hilarious goings-on that made no impression whatsoever on his amusingly oblivious mother and aunt."
"Off the coast of Ireland there lies an island. It looks just like a giant sleeping in the sea. What if it really is a giant-and what if, one day, the Sleeping Giant wakes up? In this beautifully illustrated picture book Marie Louise Fitzpatrick tells the story of a Kerry giant whose size and clumsiness annoy his neighbors so much that they appeal to their king for help. The local druid concocts a special stew which makes the giant slee ..."
The Long March(Updated) The Choctaw's Gift to Irish Famine Relief by Marie-LouiseFitzpatrick Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1999 by Tricycle Press ISBN-13: 978-1-883672-91-1, ISBN: 1-883672-91-0
""This deeply moving work quietly and effectively underscores the drama and pathos of a little-known historical episode. In 1847 the Choctaw, themselves impoverished, raised $170 (the equivalent of more than $5ooo today) to aid the Irish, then in the throes of the great potato famine."-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review• Endorsed by the Choctaw Nation.• A Smithsonian Notable Book for Children, 1998.• Children's Books of Ireland BIST ..."