By donating to our book gifting programme, you allow us to get more brilliant books into the hands of more children and bring more authors and illustrators into schools for unique reading experiences.

Bookbag, the children’s book-gifting initiative established by Niamh Sharkey, one of the festival’s Artistic Directors, during her time as Laureate na nÓg, will place books into the hands of as many primary school children as possible. This project was and is a joint initiative of Brown Bag Films and Children’s Books Ireland. This year, one lucky school will receive a library of books in the month of May.