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The Island of Horses (NYRB Kids)
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The Island of Horses (NYRB Kids) Paperback - 2018

by Dillon, Eilis

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NYRB Kids, 2018-08-07. Paperback. New.
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  • Title The Island of Horses (NYRB Kids)
  • Author Dillon, Eilis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher NYRB Kids
  • Date 2018-08-07
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1681373068_new
  • ISBN 9781681373065 / 1681373068
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (19.30 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Reading level 880
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About the author

Eils Dillon (1920-1994) wrote more than thirty books for young people, as well as fiction for adults, including the best-selling historical novel Across the Bitter Sea, about the struggle for Irish independence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With few exceptions, her young people's books are set in the west of Ireland, in small communities struggling to make a living on the islands and along the the Atlantic coast. As the critic Declan Kiberd wrote in Dillon's obituary: "What Laura Ingalls Wilder did for children's literature in the US, she achieved in Ireland, imparting a sure historical sense in books such as The Singing Cave. That interest in history was a natural expression of her curiosity of mind, and of her family inheritance."

Building on a family tradition of agitation for Irish independence (her mother's brother was one of seven men who signed the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and was executed by the British at the end of the 1916 Easter Rising), Eils Dillon committed herself to preserving and promoting Irish literature and culture. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member and strong supporter of Aosdna, the national association of writers, artists, and composers. She even wrote a few of her children's books in Gaelic, the native Irish language. But, as Kiberd explains, "There was nothing narrowly provincial in her writing: she simply assumed that books about children in Irish settings, if properly written, would be of universal appeal. And so they have proved to be."