SARAH WEBB

Sarah Webb is an award-winning Irish children’s author and bookseller. She is the Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs children’s bookshop in Greystones, Co Wicklow, Ireland, winner of An Post Bookshop of the Year 2023/24. Her books include Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the World (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill) and I Am the Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere (illustrated by Ashwin Chacko and co-edited by Lucina Jacob), both winners of Irish Book Awards. Sarah is passionate about bringing children and books together and has been awarded both the Children’s Books Ireland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books in Ireland, and the Library Association of Ireland President’s Medal for her work promoting children’s books and libraries.