Pooka

by Emer Martin, Magdalena Zuljevic (Illustrator)

POOKA is a modern take on an ancient Irish folktale. Orla is a young girl who often creates her own trouble. The mysterious, playful Pooka finds her by the castle ruins and takes her on a wild ride up to the moon. Left alone to contemplate her behavior, she begins to feel homesick. Suddenly, a young witch crashes into the moon astride a vacuum cleaner. This stubborn witch proves even more bad tempered and angry than Orla and they forge an alliance where they need to learn to cooperate to get back to earth.

50 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 20, 2016

About the author

Emer Martin is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and various places in the U.S. Her first novel Breakfast in Babylon won Book of the Year 1996 in her native Ireland at the prestigious Listowel Writers’ Week. Houghton Mifflin released Breakfast in Babylon in the U.S. in 1997. More Bread Or I’ll Appear, her second novel was published internationally in 1999. Emer studied painting in New York and has had two sell-out solo shows of her paintings at the Origin Gallery in Harcourt St, Dublin. Her third novel Baby Zero, was published in the UK and Ireland March 07, and released in the U.S. 2014. She released her first children's book Why is the Moon Following Me? in 2013. Pooka is her latest book for Children released in 2016 She completed her third short film Unaccompanied. She produced Irvine Welsh’s directorial debut NUTS in 2007. Emer was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She now lives between the two clashing worlds of the depths of Silicon Valley, CA and the jungles of Co. Meath, Ireland. Her latest novel is The Cruelty Men

Emer is an experienced public speaker and enjoys talking to book clubs, schools, libraries etc. To book her for an event please contact her at martin_emer@hotmail.com