The Island of the Bees (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780241380918)

She has written more than twenty books for children, in both English and Irish, as well as plays, television programmes and recently a film!

She loves bees.

If you are talking to the bees, please don't mention that Patricia doesn't like honey. She'd hate to offend them.

Paddy Donnelly is a bestselling, award winning author illustrator from Ireland who now lives in Belgium. Nominated four times for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration, Paddy has published over 30 picture books, including Fox & Son Tailers, Badger Books and The Vanishing Lake. The Golden Hare was awarded the Children's Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2024 and also picked up the picture book award at the 2025 Indie Book Awards. His books are now available in over 25 languages. He wishes that Pluto was still a planet.