The April 2017 ‘Bumper’ edition, featuring artwork from Inis covers spanning the past fifty editions (with thanks to Kieran Nolan at oldtown.ie, Conor & David at workgroup.ie and Fintan Wall at fintanwall.com).

• Laureate na nÓg PJ Lynch remembers Robert Dunbar
• Sarah Odedina traces the tradition of magazines for children
• Kim Harte sits down with Conor Hackett
• Dr Patricia Kennon discusses what makes a book ‘excellent’
• Margaret Ann Suggs on 20 years of illustration in Ireland
• Mairi Kidd and Micky Flynn discuss a special title and how it came to be
• Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan in conversation with Gráinne Clear
• We look at forty years of the Writers in Schools scheme
• An overview of children’s publishing in Ireland/Léargas ginerálta ar fhoilsitheorieacht do pháistí in Éirinn
• Fifty issues, fifty covers
• Buaileann an t-údar Patricia Forde le Gaeilgeoirí óga i nGaillimh
• A special announcement celebrating twenty years of Children’s Books Ireland
• The annual Children’s Books Ireland International Conference
• Reviews