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- ↑ Children's Books Ireland - About The Awards Archived December 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 "Past Winners" Archived 2016-01-22 at the Wayback Machine . CBI Awards. Children's Books Ireland (childrensbooksireland.com). Retrieved 2015-09-14.
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- ↑ "27th Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Awards". 23 May 2017.