Another Review for Dublin's Lesser Spotted Creatures

I have just received this Positive review from the Inis Website (Inis is the Irish magazine for Children's Books and the review can be found here) Thanks to all at Inis for the review and mention.

Irish children’s poets are thin on the ground, which is surprising, as Ireland is not exactly short on poets. It has fallen to poet Paul Tubb to get to grips with the capital city – in a decidedly whimsical fashion.

Dublin’s Lesser Spotted Creatures, Tubb’s second book, unleashes a bestiary of strange and often fabulous animals on Dublin’s familiar environs. Readers are introduced to an odd-sock-wearing orang-utan, an insect with its own web page, an ironing iguana, and many other beasts even less probable. I laughed out loud at the poem about Welsh prawns holidaying in Dublin, and at the bespectacled badger.

Tubb locates the outlandish in the mundane and has an eye for the quirky and unusual. The book can be a bit clunky –this may not be for connoisseurs of poetry – and the overall design is similarly basic. The often comically naïve drawings by the author certainly enhance the general air of silliness, and ultimately it is the humour that wins out, compensating for these defects.

Dublin's Lesser Spotted Creatures: First Review

Thank you Books Ireland!

The Monthly periodical, Books Ireland has said some lovely things about my new collection of Nonsense Verse. The review can be seen below.

Another mention for my book.

The magazine, 'Carousel: The Guide to Children's Books' has given my collection of poetry a brief mention.

I am very pleased with what was said about it. 'Delightfully Ridiculous'

My First Book Review.

My book has received it's first review, from a magazine called, 'Books Ireland'

The review, seen below, is mainly complimentary and I am pleased with it.