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Playing is serious business.Welcome to Toy Academy: where toys learn to play. This is where action figures train to battle, stuffed animals study the art of the hug, and collectibles practice standing very, very still. Though Grumbolt isn't really any of those things, he's determined to fit in. But when the Evil Toy Academy threatens to bring down his school, it's up to Grumbolt to go where no good toy has gone before and prove he's truly a great toy after all.This laugh-out-loud chapter book by Brian Lynch, the writer of Minions and a writer of The Secret Life of Pets, is a classic in the making.



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Brian Lynch

'Such Exceptional Talent' - Samuel BeckettBrian Lynch was born in Dublin in 1945. His first book of verse, Endsville, was shared with Paul Durcan and published in 1967. His first novel, The Winner of Sorrow, based on the life of the poet William Cowper, was published in Ireland by New Island in 2005 and in the USA by the Dalkey Archive Press in 2009. His translation with Peter Jankowsky of 'Paul Celan: 65 Poems' was published by Raven Books, Dublin, in 1985. New and Renewed: Poems 1967-2004 was published by New Island in 2004. He wrote the script for 'Love and Rage', a feature film starring Greta Scacchi and Daniel Craig, which was directed by Cathal Black in 1998. His four-part drama, Caught in a Free State, about German spies in Ireland during World War 2, was directed by Peter Ormerod for RTE and Channel 4 in 1984. Easter Snow - An Island Off Ireland/ Oster Schnee - Ein Eiland Vor Irland, poems about photographs of Clare Island taken by Peter Jankowsky who also translated the poems into German, was published by Salmon Press, Galway, and die horen, Bremen, in 1992. Playtime, poems about paintings by Gene Lambert, was published by the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallagher Gallery and New Island in 1997. A long poem on Northern Ireland, Pity for the Wicked, was first published in the 1999 Daily Telegraph/ Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition anthology The Ring of Words and then by the Duras Press, with a preface by Conor Cruise O'Brien, in 2005. Tony O'Malley, a large scale book on the Irish artist, was published by the Butler Gallery and the Scolar Press in 1996 and in a new edition by New Island in 2004; Tony O'Malley, The Visual Diaries was published by the Butler Gallery in 2005; and Tony O'Malley Self-Portraits A Centenary Exhbition 2013, in collaboration with Ciarán Benson, was published by the Butler Gallery in 2013. On the nomination of Samuel Beckett and Michael Hartnett he was elected to Aosdána in 1985.



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