Beyond the Cherry Tree
'For those with a taste for fantasy, Joe O'Brien's Beyond The Cherry Tree is a quirky somewhat eccentric fantasy which has elements reminiscent of CS Lewis's Narnia series and a strong sense of the natural.' Sunday Independent
‘How do you play every game?’ yelled Mick.
‘Like the All-Ireland Final!’ cheered the whole dressing room.
Danny Wilde wants one thing more than anything else in the world and that’s to get his GAA team, Littlestown Crokes, to the top of the League. With the help of his dad, their coach, Mick, he knows they can win.
Things go wrong, when Danny stays with his horrible uncle and aunt, who know nothing about GAA, can the Crokes can make it after all?
Danny comes up with a brilliant plan, but needs a whole lot of help to make it work …
The first title in a fantastic NEW Sports Fiction series
'a good, intelligent, contemporary Irish read' Inis Magazine
'O'Brien is good at conjuring up the atmosphere of the GAA and the importance that a club has in a local community. Will appeal to football mad boys and girls' Books Ireland
'a sharply executed tale with plenty of humourous characterisations and some serious storylines thrown in' Inis Magazine
'Young GAA fans everywhere will want to get their hands on a copy of Little Croker.' Carlow Nationalist
'One young sports obsessive I know sped through the story . . . praised the back-story.' The Irish Times
'Welcome addition to sports literature for youngsters.' Sunday Independent
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