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ⓘ About Sinead Moriarty
Sinead Moriarty is an Irish author that writes contemporary novels about the struggles of family life. +Biography Sinead Moriarty was born in 1971 in Dublin. Her parents were Aidan and Mary Moriarty. The author went to Trinity College in Dublin where she studied French and Spanish, eventually graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Moriarty left Ireland afterward. She spent some time in Paris and London. She was working as a journalist at the time. It was during her time in London that the author wrote her first novel and piqued the interest of Penguin Books. Moriarty has since made a home for herself in Dublin with her husband and three children. The author has won the Irish Independent Popular Fiction Award.
All Book Series by Sinead Moriarty
Whose Life Is It Anyway? / Keeping it in the Family
Book 2 of 14 · published 2008
Regendering the School Story
Series opener · book 1 of 103 · published 1996 Anthology · Beverly Lyon Clark
The Case of Peter Rabbit
Book 2 of 103 · published 1998 Anthology · Margaret Mackey
How Picturebooks Work
Book 4 of 103 · published 2000 Anthology · Maria Nikolajeva
The Presence of the Past
Book 7 of 103 · published 2000 Anthology · Valerie Krips
The Making of the Modern Child
Book 11 of 103 · published 2004 Anthology · Andrew O'Malley
Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre
Book 12 of 103 · published 2004 Anthology · Mike Cadden
Youth of Darkest England
Book 14 of 103 · published 2005 Anthology · Troy Boone
Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins
Book 15 of 103 · published 2006 Anthology · Jack Zipes
National Character in South African English Children's Literature
Book 17 of 103 · published 2006 Anthology · Elwyn Jenkins
A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume Two: 1830-Present
Book 18 of 103 · published 2007 Anthology · Penny Brown
Representing Africa in Children's Literature
Book 19 of 103 · published 2007 Anthology · Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature
Book 20 of 103 · published 2007 Anthology · Neal A. Lester
The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book
Book 21 of 103 · published 2007 Anthology · Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
A Critical History of French Children's Literature: Volume One: 1600-1830
Book 22 of 103 · published 2007 Anthology · Penny Brown
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
Book 23 of 103 · published 2008 Anthology · Kathryn James
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood
Book 24 of 103 · published 2008 Anthology · Elizabeth A. Galway
Enterprising Youth
Book 25 of 103 · published 2008 Anthology · Monika M. Elbert
The Crossover Novel
Book 26 of 103 · published 2008 Anthology · Rachel Falconer
Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives
Book 27 of 103 · published 2008 Anthology · Sandra L. Beckett
Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism
Book 28 of 103 · published 2008 Anthology · Alison Waller
Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature
Book 29 of 103 · published 2008 Anthology · Kara K. Keeling,Scott T. Pollard
Neo-Imperialism in Children-s Literature About Africa
Book 30 of 103 · published 2008 Anthology · Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy,Donnarae MacCann
Shakespeare in Children's Literature
Book 31 of 103 · published 2008 Anthology · Hateley Erica
Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People
Book 32 of 103 · published 2009 Anthology · Noga Applebaum
Fundamental Concepts of Children's Literature Research
Book 33 of 103 · published 2009 Anthology · Hans-Heino Ewers
Translation Under State Control
Book 34 of 103 · published 2009 Anthology · Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth
Children's Fiction about 9/11
Book 35 of 103 · published 2009 Anthology · Jo Lampert
Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers
Book 36 of 103 · published 2009 Anthology · Maria Nikolajeva
Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950
Book 37 of 103 · published 2009 Anthology · Anna Jackson,Charles Ferrall
The Children's Book Business
Book 38 of 103 · published 2010 Anthology · Lissa Paul
New Directions in Picturebook Research
Book 39 of 103 · published 2010 Anthology · Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,Teresa Colomer,Cecilia Silva-Diaz
The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature
Book 40 of 103 · published 2010 Anthology · Gillian Lathey
Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature
Book 41 of 103 · published 2010 Anthology · Julie Cross
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature
Book 42 of 103 · published 2010 Anthology · Tison Pugh
Irish Children's Literature and Culture
Book 43 of 103 · published 2010 Anthology · Valerie Coghlan
Reading the Adolescent Romance
Book 44 of 103 · published 2010 Anthology · Amy S. Pattee
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature
Book 45 of 103 · published 2011 Anthology · Michelle Superle
Beyond Pippi Longstocking
Book 46 of 103 · published 2011 Anthology · Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,Astrid Surmatz
The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature
Book 47 of 103 · published 2011 Anthology · Holly Blackford
Landscape in Children's Literature
Book 48 of 103 · published 2012 Anthology · Jane Suzanne Carroll
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture
Book 49 of 103 · published 2012 Anthology · Annette Wannamaker
Picturing the Wolf in Children's Literature
Book 50 of 103 · published 2012 Anthology · Debra Mitts-Smith
Textual Transformations in Children's Literature
Book 51 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Benjamin Lefebvre
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture
Book 52 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · John Stephens,Robyn McCallum
: Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900
Book 53 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Donnarae MacCann
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature
Book 54 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Jan Susina
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults
Book 55 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Balaka Basu
Rediscoveries in Children's Literature
Book 56 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Suzanne Rahn
Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children's Literature: Ghost Images
Book 57 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Anastasia Ulanowicz
Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust
Book 58 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Hamida Bosmajian
Transcending Boundaries
Book 60 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Sandra L. Beckett
The Gothic in Children's Literature
Book 61 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Anna Jackson,Karen Coats,Roderick McGillis
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults
Book 62 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Carrie Hintz
Recycling Red Riding Hood
Book 63 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Sandra L. Beckett
Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature
Book 64 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Lydia Kokkola
Inventing the Child
Book 66 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Joseph L. Zornado
Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
Book 67 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Michael Witmore
The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature
Book 68 of 103 · published 2013 Anthology · Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Pinocchio Goes Postmodern
Book 69 of 103 · published 2014 Anthology · Thomas J. Morrissey
Russell Hoban/Forty Years
Book 70 of 103 · published 2014 Anthology · Alida Allison
Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature
Book 71 of 103 · published 2014 Anthology · Blanka Grzegorczyk
Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction
Book 72 of 103 · published 2015 Anthology · Derek J. Thiess
The Early Reader in Children's Literature and Culture
Book 73 of 103 · published 2015 Anthology · Annette Wannamaker,Jennifer Miskec
Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War
Book 74 of 103 · published 2015 Anthology · Lissa Paul,Emma Short
The Big Smallness
Book 75 of 103 · published 2016 Anthology · Michelle Ann Abate
The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child: Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture
Book 76 of 103 · published 2016 Anthology · Amy Billone
Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children's Literature
Book 77 of 103 · published 2016 Anthology · Anja Müller,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Fictions of Integration
Book 78 of 103 · published 2017 Anthology · Naomi Lesley
New Directions in Children's Gothic
Book 79 of 103 · published 2017 Anthology · Anna Jackson
More Words about Pictures
Book 80 of 103 · published 2017 Anthology · Perry Nodelman
Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption
Book 81 of 103 · published 2017 Anthology · Macarena García-González
The Beloved Does Not Bite
Book 82 of 103 · published 2017 Anthology · Debra Dudek
Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature
Book 83 of 103 · published 2017 Anthology · Kristine Moruzi
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture
Book 84 of 103 · published 2017 Anthology · Roxanne Harde
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture
Book 85 of 103 · published 2017 Anthology · Anna Feuerstein
The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture
Book 86 of 103 · published 2018 Anthology · Sonya Sawyer Fritz,Sara K. Day
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960
Book 87 of 103 · published 2018 Anthology · Bronwyn Lowe
Battling Girlhood
Book 88 of 103 · published 2018 Anthology · Kristen B. Proehl
The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults
Book 91 of 103 · published 2020 Anthology · Heidi Hansson
Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature
Book 92 of 103 · published 2020 Anthology · Blanka Grzegorczyk
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature
Book 93 of 103 · published 2020 Anthology · Cristina Herrera
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds
Book 94 of 103 · published 2020 Anthology · Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults
Book 96 of 103 · published 2021 Anthology · Kristine Moruzi,Paul Venzo
Dust Off the Gold Medal
Book 97 of 103 · published 2021 Anthology · Sara L. Schwebel
Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism
Book 98 of 103 · published 2021 Anthology · Christopher Kelen,Jo You Chengcheng
The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature
Book 99 of 103 · published 2022 Anthology · Elizabeth A Galway
Youth Fiction and Trans Representation
Book 100 of 103 · published 2022 Anthology · Tom Sandercock
Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood
Book 101 of 103 · published 2022 Anthology · Marina Balina
Creative Writing in Schools
Book 102 of 103 · published 2026 Anthology · Mick Gowar
African American Children in American Political Life
Latest in the series · book 103 of 103 · published 2026 Anthology · Myisha Priest
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Sinead Moriarty?
Sinead Moriarty is an Irish author that writes contemporary novels about the struggles of family life. +Biography Sinead Moriarty was born in 1971 in Dublin. Her parents were Aidan and Mary Moriarty. The author went to Trinity College in Dublin where she studied French and Spanish, eventually graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree.
Which Sinead Moriarty series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Children's Literature and Culture series, the earliest of Sinead Moriarty's multi-book series: it opens with Regendering the School Story (1996) and runs to 103 books across 1996–2026, ending with African American Children in American Political Life (2026). Sinead Moriarty's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Sinead Moriarty written?
Sinead Moriarty has 127 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1996 and 2026. 110 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Children's Literature and Culture series with 103 books — and 17 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Sinead Moriarty's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Sinead Moriarty's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Children's Literature and Culture (1996–2026, 103 books), Emma Hamilton (2004–2013, 5 books) and Devlin Sisters (2011–2014, 2 books).
How are Sinead Moriarty's books organised into series?
This guide splits Sinead Moriarty's 127 books into 3 named series and 17 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Children's Literature and Culture (103 books, 1996–2026); Emma Hamilton (5 books, 2004–2013); Devlin Sisters (2 books, 2011–2014).