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Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The Pooka Plant

Ellora’s pooka grandad is visiting and he’s given Ellora some magical seeds to help her with her schoolwork. The seeds grow into a Listening Lily, which has petals that look like ears and grows magical leaves with the answers to whatever questions it hears! It’s a great help at first, but when it begins to grow out of control and starts sprouting random information – like a spell to make a person’s clothes magically turn inside-out, and ‘facts’ that turn out to be silly lies – Ellora doesn’t know what to do ... She knows it’s just her grandad’s pooka mischief, but if she doesn’t do something about the magic flower fast, she could be thrown out of Shee Le Chéile NS!

 

ISBN

9781804581698

Publication Date

March 2026

Language(s)

English

Format

Hardback, 128 pages

Country of Origin

IRELAND

Publisher

Gill Children's

Author(s)

By Sinéad O'Hart Illustrated by Úna Woods

Availability Status

Not yet published

Sinéad O’Hart is a writer and podcaster (Storyshaped), with six books for 8+ readers to her name (The Eye of the North, Skyborn, The Star-Spun Web, The Time-Tider, The Silver Road and Sword of the Sun) as well as a series for younger readers called Lola and Larch.

Úna Woods is a picture book author and illustrator based in Dublin. She is the author/illustrator of Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire? and A Spooktacular Place to Be.

Their book, Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School was shortlisted for an An Post Irish Book Award in 2025.

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