Shona Shirley Macdonald Illustrator & Author

Shona Shirley Macdonald is an award-winning illustrator/author, originally from Scotland and now living by the sea in County Waterford. Her other illustrated titles include An Féileacán agus an Rí written by Máire Zepf, which won the Gradam Réics Carló (Book of the Year for Young Readers), and The Moon Spun Round: W.B. Yeats for Children, edited by Noreen Doody. She has also exhibited her work throughout Ireland in both solo and group shows, and internationally at the Bratislava Illustration Biennial. The Pooka Party was chosen for the 2020 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Honor List and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2018 – Children’s Book of the Year (Junior), and the Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year 2019.