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Catch Eoin on one of only three UK appearances this year as he reveals all about the latest Artemis Fowl adventure, Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex.
Check the events section for details on the events venues and how to get tickets.
Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex
We’re currently taking registrations for EOIN COLFER VIRTUALLY LIVE at www.eoincolfervirtuallylive.co.uk and we already have an audience of 10,000 children signed up to watch from schools across the country!
It’s taking place on 20th July at 2-2.45pm BST and is a chance for anyone with an internet connection to get involved. Eoin will be doing an event live from Forest Hill school, which will be streamed live across the internet for anyone to watch. Viewers will also be able to submit questions for Eoin to answer live!
This is a great opportunity for any school, bookshop, library or individual to get involved and watch live, and the video of the event will also be available to distribute afterwards.
Puffin Books, Eoin’s publishers in the UK and Ireland are celebrating their 70th Birthday by selecting the most entertaining and inspirational books in the last seven decades. The shortlist has been announced and our favourite mudman has made the cut. We know who we want to win….so get voting! Full press release and details are below.
VOTE for the Puffin of Puffins
at www.happybirthdaypuffin.co.uk
Vote from 4 June
7 MODERN CLASSICS – one from each decade of Puffin’s spectacular 70 years have been hand-picked as the most entertaining and inspirational children’s books of all time.
The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett – 40s
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White – 50s
Stig of the Dump by Clive King – 60s
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl – 70s
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian – 80s
The Hundred Mile-an-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong – 90s
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer – 00s
Marcus Brigstocke, Jacqueline Wilson, Jasper Fforde, Cathy Cassidy, Jason Bradbury, Andy Stanton and Jenny Valentine will kick off the debate, chaired by journalist Lucy Mangan at The Guardian’s Hay Festival on 3 June then it’s up to the British public to decide.
Voting closes 16 June. Winner announced on www.puffin.co.uk on 17 June.
Puffin Classics Covers
Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex
To celebrate the forthcoming release of the seventh incredible Artemis adventure, we are launching a comic comp with the first chapter of the brand new ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE ATLANTIS COMPLEX.
Your challenge is to turn this first chapter into a cliff-hanger comic! Use all your artistic and design skills to make this
first chapter come to life in pictures. The winning entry will be chosen by Eoin Colfer to be transformed into an e-book and an app 3 as part of the buzz build up to the release of the new book.
In short, you will win fame and glory!
Go to www.artemisfowl.co.uk
to read the first chapter and to enter now.
Closing date 31 May 2010.
Terms and conditions apply. UK & Ireland residents aged over 7 only.
See www.artemisfowl.co.uk for full terms and conditions.
Roald Dahl, Richard Adams, Eric Carle and Robert Louis Stevenson are among the writers of the 70 best-ever books for children, according to a new list from Puffin.
The publisher has released the list, which are all Puffin’s own titles, to mark its 70th anniversary.
Split into categories such as Best Mischief and Mayhem, Best Swashbucklers and Derring-Do, and even Best Alternatives to Twilight, it is being released to coincide with National Puffin Share-A-Story Day, which will be celebrated across the UK tomorrow (Saturday 8th May).
Artemis Fowl features in the Best Heroes list:
The Best Heroes
1. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
2. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
3. Young Bond: SilverFin by Charlie Higson
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
See more in the Interactive Handbook celebrating Puffin’s Best Books for the 70th birthday of Puffin.
Eoin Colfer about "And Another Thing" H2G2 6
Uploaded by nbotti. – Independent web videos.
Interview in Paris, March 2010 with thanks to Nicholas Botti of DouglasAdams.info
from the musical “The Lords of Love”
from the musical “The Lords of Love”
from the musical “The Lords of Love”
Balor Productions
presents
A NEW MUSICAL
by
Eoin Colfer, Liam Bates & Cyril Murphy
Lords of Love Poster