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Ruairí's bad day begins when he wakes late, his mother screeching outside his door. The hunt for shoes and trousers costs valuable time, he misses breakfast, can't find his schoolbag, forgets to bring a lunch, and all this before he arrives at school to find the teacher waiting at the door. By the time he has posed (unconventionally) for the school photographer, been blamed for spilling water, and done (extra) Maths and spelling homework, Ruairí is exhausted from this particularly bad day and young readers have identified with, and laughed at, every incident. The first of cheeky Ruairí's adventures won the 1996 Irish Language Book of the Year Award and remains a the best-selling children's book in Irish.
Cló Mhaigh Eo 1996
Translated into: Japanese
Cló Mhaigh Eo
Droimnín
Clár Chlainne Mhuris
Co. Mhaigh Eo
Ireland
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