• A sturdy board book to help young children learn their very first words in Irish.

• Features pictures of 100 familiar objects thematically arranged in favourite topics such as clothes, toys, food and parts of the body labelled in Irish to encourage word association.

• Illustrated with the handmade models of Jo Litchfield.

Illustrations:Full colour throughout

This book is part of a book series called Very First Words .

There are 18 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Mike Nicholson won the Kelpies Prize for new Scottish children's fiction in 2005. He is the author of two other Picture Kelpies, Thistle Street and Thistle Sands, and two stories for children aged 7 and up, Catscape and Grimm. Mike lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Jo Litchfield is a professional illustrator and designer who works from her studio in Derbyshire, England. She studied Graphic Design at Derby University before working as a designer and illustrator for Usborne Publishing. She uses model-making, digital techniques and photography in her work, and has illustrated many children's books.