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It&#8217;s\u00a0a unique opportunity for young readers to meet writers and to develop a deeper relationship with a specific book.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival did not go ahead as planned in March 2020, due to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic. However\u00a0prior to this, virtual visits between the authors and the selected primary schools were able to take place. Book packs were purchased for the participating schools.<\/p>\n<p>The 4 authors\/books\/schools\u00a0selected for 2020 were:<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span>Sadhbh Devlin \/ Beag B\u00eddeach \u2013 Monkstown Educate Together <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span>Shane Hegarty \/ Boot \u2013 Edmondstown NS &amp; Our Lady of the Wayside NS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span>Chris Judge \/ Tiny and Teeny\u00a0\u2013 St Oliver Plunkett NS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span>Patricia Forde \/ Mother Tongue\u00a0 \u2013 Holy Trinity NS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12564","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adopt an Author programme for school children - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Adopt an Author is a programme designed to give local schoolchildren in DLR access to their favourite writers, and forms part of the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/adopt-an-author-programme-for-school-children\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adopt an Author programme for school children - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adopt an Author is a programme designed to give local schoolchildren in DLR access to their favourite writers, and forms part of the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival. 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