Double delight as illustrator scoops children's book awards
Katie O’Connor (12) and prize winner Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick. Photo: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
Kirsty Blake Knox
Illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick was "stunned and shocked" to learn she had won the Children's Book of the Year Award.
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