MARY MURPHY is a Dublin-based author-illustrator of over 40 books for young children. She has garnered a string of starred reviews and accolades in the USA, UK and Ireland for her work, which has also been adapted for TV. In Children’s Books Ireland’s 2018 campaign to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage, Mary was one of twenty ‘Bold Girls’ celebrated for having made ‘an exceptional contribution to the canon of Irish children’s literature’. The Irish Examiner called her latest picture book ‘iconic’, and her first novel The Minute Minders (Pushkin Children’s, 2024) was Children’s Book of the Week in both The Sunday Times and The Week Junior.
