Rusty Nails & Astronauts: A Wolfhound Poetry Anthology

Robert Dunbar was born in 1940. He received an undergraduate degree in English from Queen's University Belfast and an MA in English in Education at Ulster University. He lectured in children's literature at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Rathmines, Trinity College Dulbin, and St. Patrick's College, Dublin. He reviewed children's fiction for The Irish Times for more than 27 years. He edited two anthologies entitled Enchanted Journeys: Fifty Years of Irish Writing for Children and Skimming. He received a CBI Lifetime Achievement Award. He died after a long illness on July 20, 2016 at the age of 76. Author and illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1962. Some of her well-known works are Lizzy and Skunk; I'm a Tiger, Too!; You, Me and the Big Blue Sea; and The Long March. She has received numerous awards, including two Reading Association of Ireland Children's Book Awards, the Irish Children's Book Trust Book of the Decade Award, and two Bisto Merit Awards for best children's book. She lives in Ireland, but likes to travel and has visited Australia and the United States.