Opening Event: Eoin Colfer

Best-selling children’s book author Eoin Colfer attributes his early interest in writing to the Viking stories he learned in elementary school. After qualifying as a primary school teacher, Colfer spent four years working in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Italy. His first book, Benny and Omar has been translated into many languages. With the publication of the best-selling Artemis Fowl series, Colfer gained international acclaim. His other novels include the WARP trilogy, Airman, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer’s Legend of… books, The Wish List, and Benny and Babe. In his latest book, Iron Man, The Gauntlet (Disney Book Group/Marvel Press), fans of the billionaire inventor Tony Stark will find out just how invincible the Invincible Iron Man is when he is stripped of everything.