- Home
- John Burke Books
Books by John Burke
Kathi 'Fatti' Burke is an Irish illustrator. She lives in Lisbon. John Burke is Fatti's dad. He is a retired primary school teacher and principal. He lives in Waterford. Their first book, Irelandopedia, won the Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice Award at the 2015 Irish Book Awards, as well as the Eilis Dillon Award for first children's book and the Judges' Special Award at the CBI Book of the Year Awards in 2016. Their next books, Historopedia and Focloiropedia, were nominated for the Specsavers Children's Book of the Year (Junior) Award at the Irish Book Awards in 2016 and 2017. Other books in the Little Library series include Granuaile: The Pirate Queen, Brian Boru: The Warrior King and Constance Markievicz: The Rebel Countess.