David Maybury | Blog

7 of the top 10 most borrowed authors in Ireland in 2009 were children’s books – namely Roderick Hunt, Francesca Simon, Daisy Meadows, Enid Blyton, Jacqueline Wilson, Roger Hargreaves and Roald Dahl.

The most borrowed title – after the The Official Driver Theory Test – was John Boyne’s Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (with Rowling’s Harry Potter and Meyer’s Twilight in close support)

I’m delighted that Horrid Henry is such a popular boy in Irish libraries as I spent all of my lunchtimes volunteering in my school library and most of my afternoons in my local one.
- Francesca Simon

Click to read the full list of most borrowed books of 2009.