Patricia Forde

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460 appearances 4 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5d ago

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in the bathroom, wherever, that they might fall over them.

So that you're not saying, oh, read a book.

It's there.

They're curious beings.

If they see something interesting on the cover, they might open it.

And I think it comes from growing up in Galway, where we had a lot of street theatre with mockness and stuff.

So if you went down the street, you never knew what you might fall over.

And I think it's a great way to think about it, to make books part of the house, have them there.

Now, that's easy to say, I suppose, for people who can afford to buy them.

But the library is there as a catch all for everybody.

Is that right?

Collaborator and friend.

Although people don't realise with picture books, there's very little collaboration.

Paddy and I didn't speak to each other during the making of that book.

I've never spoken to any of the people who illustrated my books while we were doing them.

You know, you have this picture that we're in a room going, and then we'll do this.

It's not like that at all.

That's exactly how I imagine it.

I write the text.

I sell it to the publisher.

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