Saint Patrick's Day for Kids | Washoe County Library System

Jack and Annie travel back to 19th-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.

3) Leprechaun luck: a wee book of Irish wisdom

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A collection of Irish blessings, sayings, and verses about such things as friendship, home, and happiness.

4) Leprechauns and Irish folklore: a nonfiction companion to Leprechaun in late winter

Author

Osborne, Mary Pope

Series

Magic tree house fact trackers volume 21

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Book, Book (Paperback)

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Join Jack and Annie as they research leprechauns and Irish folklore and find out the facts behind the fiction.

5) Leprechauns never lie

Author

Balian, Lorna

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Gram is ailing and Ninny Nanny, too lazy to care for their simple needs, says she will catch a leprechaun to discover his hidden gold.

6) Leprechaun tales

Author

Carroll, Yvonne

7) The luckiest leprechaun

Author

Korman, Justine

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When a leprechaun reluctantly lets a dog befriend him, he finds out what it's like to care about someone.

8) The leprechaun's gold

Author

Edwards, Pamela Duncan

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A leprechaun intervenes when a greedy young harpist sabotages a royal contest.

9) The Great Leprechaun Chase

Author

Dean, James

Series

Pete the cat picture books (James Dean)

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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New York Times #1 Bestseller!

New York Times bestselling author and artist James Dean takes us on a St. Patrick's Day adventure with Pete the Cat as Pete discovers how lucky he actually is!

It's St. Patrick's Day, and it's also the grand opening of Pete the Cat's leprechaun catching business. Pete gears up to trap a leprechaun for his friends! But catching a leprechaun is never easy—especially

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10) The Gingerbread Man and the leprechaun loose at school

Author

Murray, Laura

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"When a leprechaun makes mischief at the school, the Gingerbread Man follows his clues and sets a trap to outsmart him"--

11) That's what leprechauns do

Author

Bunting, Eve

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When leprechauns Ari, Boo, and Col need to place the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they cannot help getting into mischief along the way.

12) The leprechaun who lost his rainbow

Author

Callahan, Sean

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When Roy G. Biv, a leprechaun, appears and asks Colleen's help in saving the St. Patrick's Day parade, she offers items of different colors to rebuild his lost rainbow, but is reluctant to part with a special gift from her grandfather.

13) The leprechaun under the bed

Author

Bateman, Teresa

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Brian the leprechaun enjoys his solitary life until a human builds a stone cottage above Brian's underground home.

14) Lucky O'Leprechaun

Author

Dillon, Jana

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On St. Patrick's Day eve, Meghan and Sean get help from their three grandaunties and manage to capture a sly leprechaun.

15) Jamie O'Rourke and the big potato: an Irish folktale

Author

DePaola, Tomie

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Book, Board Book

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The laziest man in all of Ireland catches a leprechaun, who offers a potato seed instead of a pot of gold for his freedom.

16) Fluffy's lucky day

Author

McMullan, Kate

Series

Fluffy, the classroom guinea pig volume 20

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On the day of the school's Saint Patrick's Day party, Fluffy the classroom guinea pig learns about and meets a leprechaun.

17) There was an old lady who swallowed a clover!

Author

Colandro, Lucille

Series

There was an old lady (Scholastic)

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Book, Book (Paperback)

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"You won't believe why this old lady swallowed a clover, a daisy, a butterfly, a bird, a pot, some gold, and a fiddle"-- Cover verso.

18) Crafts for St. Patrick's Day

Author

Ross, Kathy

Series

Holiday crafts for kids

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Presents twenty simple craft projects including a shamrock bird, a leprechaun face mask, a shillelagh, and other items featuring various symbols of the popular Irish holiday.