Jen Wallace
1) Dinosaur pie
Author
Publisher
Little Island
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious and heart-warming story about a boy with ADHD who is transformed into a dinosaur. When Rory's mum gives him dinosaur pie for dinner he doesn't expect to be transformed into an actual dinosaur! It wasn't really Rory's mum's fault. She just bought Dinosaur Pie for a change and gave it to Rory for his dinner. The next morning he was a dinosaur. Not dressed up as a dinosaur - actually a dinosaur. It's not very funny really. Rory can't talk...
Author
Publisher
Little Island Books
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Will Oleg's mysterious new camera help him become an internet sensation? It has no instructions and no buttons, but it seems to know exactly what Oleg wants it to do. Now, with dinosaurs of all sizes running about the campsite and a nosey professor poking around, Oleg and his friends commence Operation Hide the Dinos"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
A moving and insightful anthology of personal essays by Irish autistic adults. Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices is the first collection of personal essays written by autistic Irish adults.
One in twenty-seven Irish school children are now diagnosed as autistic, and autism is entering the general population's consciousness much louder than it did in the past. As understanding about autism spreads, more and more adults are...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning journalist and bestselling author Jennifer Wallace comes Mattering-a landmark book that introduces a transformative new framework to confront the loneliness, burnout, and lack of purpose so many of us face today"-- Provided by publisher.
In this groundbreaking work, Wallace makes an urgent case: mattering--the feeling that we are valued and have an opportunity to add value--is a core human need, as essential to our well-being...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Never Enough, reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and psychologists, she offers a humane view of the crisis plaguing today's teens and a practical framework for how to help"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Raising the Sparks, Jennifer Wallace's sixth poetry collection, is inspired by the alignment of Christian and Judaic traditions. The idea of raising the sparks, tikkun olam, comes from 16th century mystical Judaism-the belief that, if people worked to "gather or raise the sparks" from the sacred vessels that shattered at the moment of creation, a repair of the world from its initial splitting would be complete. It is the duty of each one of us to...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Rooted in the grit of urban Baltimore and the forests of rural Massachusetts, these poems remind us that life's tensions and polarities are energies we carry within ourselves.
These are poems of witness and commentary, conversation and meditation. They offer moments of close looking, and of looking away; of loving, and of bungled attempts to be more loving. They call us to look long and hard- and generously -at our lives. Written with radiant...