Evie''s Christmas Wishes

About Siobhan Parkinson

Siobhan Parkinson is one of Ireland's best-known writers for children. She has written more than thirty books most of them for children and teenagers for which she has won a bagful of awards and nominations and her books have been translated into about twenty languages. She was Ireland's first Children's Laureate. She is visually impaired which means she has to rely mainly on audiobooks for reading and she works by using magnification software and a voice on her computer. She lives in Dublin with her husband who is a woodturner and without her grown-up son who is a book editor.