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Like A Charm by Elle McNicoll

February 3, 2022 By achuka Leave a Comment

Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 20 Feb 2020

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Bfk 5-star review

Edinburgh is a city filled with magical creatures. No one can see them… until Ramya Knox. As she is pulled into her family’s world of secrets and spells, Ramya sets out to discover the truth behind the Hidden Folk with only three words of warning from her grandfather: Beware the Sirens.

Plunged into an adventure that will change everything, Ramya is about to learn that there is more to her powers than she ever imagined.

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Edinburgh, Scotland

Sky by Holly Webb

September 6, 2021 By achuka Leave a Comment

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Staying with her grandparents in the Scottish Highlands, Lara is fascinated by the rare white snowy owl her grandad has spotted flying nearby. And when she follows the beautiful bird into the woods, it leads her on a magical adventure…
Transported a century back in time, Lara befriends Amelia, who confides in Lara about her cruel cousin, who she’s sure is trying to hurt the baby owls nesting in the woods. When Lara discovers the hatchlings belong to her owl, Sky, she’s determined to help. But how can she protect them when she needs to return to her own time?

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Highlands, Scotland, winter

Otters’ Moon by Susanna Bailey (cover ill. Keith Robinson)

October 23, 2020 By achuka Leave a Comment

The brand new novel from the critically-acclaimed author of Snow Foal, a beautiful and heart-wrenching middle-grade debut for kids aged 9 to 12.

Like that first book, this one is set in the beautiful wilds of a remote Scottish island.

Luke hates his life. His dad is busy with a shiny replacement family and his mum has insisted they spend their holiday on a remote Scottish island. Then Luke meets Meg, who lives with her grandfather in a boarded-up boathouse on the beach. When they rescue an otter pup that they name Willow, a chink of light appears in Luke’s dark and lonely days. But danger lurks behind the beauty of Puffin Bay – and soon Luke must depend upon Willow for his very survival …

Just for fun, I made an animated fly-through of my cover artwork for Otters’ Moon by @sbaileywriter – a beautiful story of friendship and hope set on a magical Scottish island. This was such a lovely book to illustrate.@egmontbooksuk pic.twitter.com/mMTdM75bgv

— Keith Robinson (@RobinsonKH) October 23, 2020

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: island, Scotland, Scottish

An Amazing Animal Atlas of Scotland by Anders Frang (illustrator)

October 2, 2020 By achuka Leave a Comment

Meet the amazing animals of Scotland in this beautiful book, packed full of fun facts, vibrant illustrations and maps showing where to spot these wonderful creatures.
Young conservationists will love exploring Scotland’s distinct habitats — sea and coast, mountains and forests, rivers and lochs, and grasslands — and learning about the incredible creatures that live there. These unique wild spaces are the ideal home for endangered creatures — some of which only live in Scotland.  
An Amazing Animal Atlas of Scotland offers practical tips on conservation to encourage children to engage with their natural surroundings and help these amazing animals to thrive.

Follow this superb Edinburgh-based illustrator on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andersfrang_illustration/

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Filed Under: NonFiction Tagged With: conservation, Scotland, Scottish

Bookbug Picture Book Prize Shortlist

August 29, 2019 By achuka Leave a Comment

The following three books have been shortlisted for the Bookbug Prize, co-oridinated by Scottish Book Trust:

 

Sophie Johnson: Unicorn Expert by Morag Hood, illustrated by Ella Oakstad

The Prince and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by Jez Tuya

The Station Mouse by Meg McLaren

 

Children across Scotland can vote for their favourite. All Primary 1 children receive the three shortlisted books in the Bookbug P1 Family Bag in November. Pupils can take part either by reading the books, or watching the videos of the shortlisted titles on Scottish Booktrust’s website. Voting closes on December 6th, and the winner will be announced on January 29th, 2020.

Filed Under: Blog, Books Tagged With: awards, prizes, Scotland, Scottish

2018 Kelpies Prize Winner

August 31, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

This year’s winner of the Kelpies Prize is Hannah Foley, with The Lost Wizard of Nine Wtiches Wood.

Celia Bryce and Robin Scott-Elliot were the two other shortlisted authors.

 

Winner Hannah Foley receives her giant cheque from Lari Don

The Kelpies Prize is an annual prize for new Scottish writing for children run by publisher Floris Books.

Floris Books launched the Kelpies Prize in 2004 with support from the Scottish Arts Council, now Creative Scotland, to encourage and reward new Scottish writing for children. Previous winners include Mike Nicholson, Scottish Children’s Book Award winners Janis Mackay and Alex McCall (the youngest writer ever to win the Kelpies Prize), and the prize also launched the writing career of the multi-award-winning Lari Don.

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Bookbug Picture Book Prize Shortlist

August 31, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

There are three books on the shortlist of the Bookbug Prize, administered by Scottish Book Trust.

These three books will be gifted to each Primary 1 pupil in Scotland.

The winning title will be announced in January. Shortlisted authors and illustrators receive £500 per book, and the winner  £3,000.

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I Am Bat book cover

>>>http://scottishbooktrust.com/bpbp/shortlist-2019

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Book launch on Arran this weekend

September 28, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

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THE Third book in the Thumble Tumble series of children’s books will be launching this Saturday on Arran.

Written by Angela Proctor, Thumble Tumble and the Eagalach Cup, is the latest in a popular series and you can meet the author too in Brodick this weekend.

The book continues the little witches adventures and centres on a crazy game of Thistle Pixie Football (Eagalach) which really rattles Mogdred!

The family fun starts at 11am until 1pm Saturday, September 30 in Brodick Hall.

via Book launch on Arran this weekend | Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald.

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Where The World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean

September 27, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

The author writes, “When I came across the story of the boys marooned on Star an Armin in 1727, it tantalised me with its lack of detail. A party of fowlers went out to harvest gannets, feathers and eggs, and no boat came to take them home again. What did they suppose had happened? What explanation crossed their minds? How did they cope? I thought I knew where I wanted to take the story, but a usual the joy came in finding out as I went along. The novel is more guesswork than history…”

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: island, Scotland, survival

Scottish Teenage Prize Winner – official video announcement

March 2, 2017 By achuka Leave a Comment

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Borders-based author Claire McFall has been named the winner of the very first Scottish Teenage Book Prize.

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Claire’s third novel, Black Cairn Point, received votes from 12 – 16 yr olds across Scotland to beat off stiff competition from the two other shortlisted titles, Keith Gray’s The Last Soldier and Joan Lennon’s Silver Skin.

Black Cairn Point (Paperback)

The author will receive £3,000 and the two runners-upwill £500 each. The new prize was set up to celebrate the most popular teen books by Scottish authors, and is run by Scottish Book Trust with support from Creative Scotland.

Black Cairn Point, set in Dumfries and Galloway and published by Hot Key Books, is described as “a chilling and atmospheric thriller which explores what happens when an ancient malevolent spirit is reawakened”.

Claire received news of her Scottish Teenage Book Prize win from vlogger Claire Forrester aka The Book Fox at The Edinburgh Book Shop in Bruntsfield and the announcement video is available on the Scottish Book Trust’s website. [see link at the bottom of this post]

“I’m over the moon that Black Cairn Point has been voted the winner of the first Scottish Teenage Book Prize,” Claire said. “It’s a brilliant award that encourages young people around Scotland to read books about and from their country and their culture. But it also encourages them to get involved by taking part in the competitions for readers that run alongside. Silver Skin and The Last Soldier are both terrific books, so to know that readers chose my novel is an enormous compliment. This is why I write.”

Claire is a writer and English teacher who lives in Clovenfords in the Scottish Borders. Her first book, Ferryman, was a love story which retold the ancient Greek myth of Charon, the ferryman of Hades who transported souls to the underworld. The novel won the Older Readers Category of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2013; was long-listed for the UKLA (UK Literary Association) Book Awards and long-listed for the Branford Boase Award; and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. The sequel to the Ferryman is due to be released in September.

Aspiring young film makers were also asked to get involved with The Scottish Teenage Book Prize 2017 by creating their own book trailer for one of the shortlisted titles or entering a graphic novel to create a comic strip adaption of a scene from one of the books. Scottish Book Trust provides extensive learning resources for teachers and librarians on how to create book trailers and how to make the most of using comics in the classroom.

St Joseph’s Academy in Kilmarnock is the winner of the Book Trailer Competition. Their trailer will be featured on Scottish Book Trust website and they will receive a £250 Waterstones voucher to help stock their school library.

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/learning/teachers-librarians/scottish-teenage-book-prize-winner

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