P. J. Lynch - Published Works

Published Works

Lynch has illustrated more than 20 books:

• A Bag of Moonshine (1986), retold by Alan Garner, collection — winner of the 1987 Mother Goose Award
• The Raggy Taggy Toys (1988), by Joyce Dunbar
• Melisande (1988), by E. Nesbit (1900)
• Fairy Tales of Ireland (1990), by William Butler Yeats (19 stories from 1888 and 1892 collections)
• Stories for Children (1990), by Oscar Wilde (fl. 1880–1895)
• East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon (1992), translated from Norwegian by George Webbe Dasent (1910)
• The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1986), by Hans Christian Andersen (1838)
• The Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales (1993), retold by Sarah Hayes, collection
• The Snow Queen (1994), by Hans Christian Andersen (1845)
• Catkin (1994), by Antonia Barber
• The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (1995), by Susan Wojciechowski — winner of the 1995 Greenaway Medal
• The King of Ireland's Son (1996), retold by Brendan Behan (1962)
• When Jessie Came Across the Sea (1997), by Amy Hest — winner of the 1997 Greenaway Medal
• Grandad's Prayers of the Earth (1999), by Douglas Wood
• The Names Upon the Harp: Irish Myth and Legend (2000), retold by Marie Heaney, collection
• Ignis (2001), by Gina Wilson
• The Bee-Man of Orn (2004), by Frank R. Stockton (1883)
• A Christmas Carol (2006), by Charles Dickens (1843)
• The Gift of the Magi (2008), by O. Henry (1906)
• Lincoln and His Boys (2009), by Rosemary Wells

Lynch was one of many illustrators who contributed to An ABC Picture Gallery, a collaborative alphabet book written by the Dyslexia Institute staff (Oxford: Butterworth–Heinemann, 1999; ISBN 9780434804726) — "a full page illustration for each letter of the alphabet from some of the illustrators of today" with text insights about their work.