{"id":852,"date":"2012-03-02T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T09:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=852"},"modified":"2024-06-06T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:08:10","slug":"do-fish-wear-pyjamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/do-fish-wear-pyjamas\/","title":{"rendered":"DO FISH WEAR PYJAMAS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 March was World Book Day and Mario Corrigan and David Butler picked up their first major literary award at Scoil Mhuire, Newbridge &#8211; the prestigious &#8216;Fish-car&#8217; which rivals the Oscars of Hollywood was specially commissioned for the occasion to mark the visit to the school of author Mario Corrigan to discuss his book, <em>Do Fish Wear Pyjamas? The Quest for the Great Book of Kildare,<\/em> which was illustrated by Kildare born artist, David Butler. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GroupSMN small.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/library\/ehistory\/GroupSMN%20small.JPG\" width=\"448\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A wonderfully cratfed adventure story for boys and girls of 6-14 (but really of all ages) introduces the readers to the rich history and heritage of Kildare in a positive way. The author, teachers and children of Scoil Mhuire had a blast and we thank Brian and all his team for the great welcome. Hopefully we will see them follow suit with a publication of their own and indeed other schools through the county. The book was published by Kildare Library &amp; Arts Services with the aid of 3rd class Scoil Bhride Naofa and Scoil na Mainistreach in Kildare Town.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fishcar.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/library\/ehistory\/Fishcar.JPG\" width=\"283\" height=\"448\" \/> <\/center><center><em>The Fish-car Award<\/em><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Teacherssmall.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/library\/ehistory\/Teacherssmall.JPG\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/> <\/center><center>Mario with Mary Linehan and staff of Scoil Mhuire, Newbridge<\/center><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 March was World Book Day and Mario Corrigan and David Butler picked up their first major literary award at Scoil Mhuire, Newbridge &#8211; the prestigious &#8216;Fish-car&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}