Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick

A little about the author

Marie-Louise was born in Dublin, where she studied Illustration. Her main interest as a picture book creator is in charting the personal journeys we make in early childhood.  She has been creating picture books since 1988 and turned to writing novels in 2008, with great success.

Marie-Louise has represented her country in both the Hans Christian Andersen and the Astrid Lindgren Awards. She runs on coffee and chocolate.

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Titles Include

Older Fiction

TIMECATCHER –  novel, Orion Children’s Books (Shortlisted for 2010 IBA Awards & West Sussex Children’s Choice Awards)

DARK WARNING –  novel, Orion Children’s Books (CBI Honour Award for Fiction 2013)

HAGWITCH – novel, Orion Children’s Books (CBI Children’s Book of the Year Award 2014 & Honour Award for Fiction)

ON MIDNIGHT BEACH – YA novel, Faber & Faber – (Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2021, Lancashire Book Awards & the IBA Awards, longlisted for the UKLAs, KSC Teen School Book Award)

 SISTERS OF THE MOON – YA novel, Faber & Faber (shortlisted An Post Irish Book Awards 2024)

Younger Fiction

IZZY AND THE SKUNK – Gullane, (Bisto Book of the year 2001)

YOU, ME AND THE BIG BLUE SEA – Gullane, (Bisto Book of the year 2003)

I’M A TIGER TOO! – Gullane (Shortlisted for Bisto, 2002)

SILLY MUMMY, SILLY DADDY – Frances Lincoln (Shortlisted for 2007 Irish Book Awards)

I AM I – Roaring Brook Press USA (CBI Book of the Year Award 2009 & Honour Award for Illustration, Carle Museum Distinction 2009)

THERE – Roaring Brook Press USA (Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Award)

THE NEW KID – Hodder

OWL BAT BAT OWL – Walker Books (JLG selection, nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway)

I CAN MAKE A TRAIN NOISE co-created with Michael Emberley – Neal Porter Books – (JLG selection, Hornbook/Publishers Weekly starred reviews, Book Pages Best Books list)

THERE – Roaring Brook Press

DEAR TOOTH FAIRY – HarperCollins US

DON’T – Otter-Barry Books

TIMECATCHER

“It’s a real pleasure to see the versatile Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick diversify from award-winning picture books to a full-length novel in the fantasy mode. TIMECATCHER is a fast-paced novel, full of surprises.”

IRISH TIMES

OWL BAT BAT OWL

“Intensely expressive, humorous and touching, it invites the reader to turn the book upside down and see things from a bat’s perspective too.”

THE GUARDIAN

THERE

“Marie-Louise’s strongest work yet – an extremely successful combination of text and image.” “This is a book for rumination, a rare permission to ask the unanswerable questions. The thoughts that propel it and the images that illuminate it make this volume a small wonder for children”.

ON MIDNIGHT BEACH

“A gripping YA novel written with so much passion and heart the words practically beat on the page. A cracking read for older teens and adults alike.”

Sarah Webb, IRISH INDEPENDENT

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