Floris Books, Scotland’s largest children’s publisher, celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Kelpies imprint of Scottish children’s books and launched a ground-breaking new teen list at a private party in Edinburgh on Friday.
The imprint’s authors and illustrators, including award-winning authors Theresa Breslin and Lari Don, gathered to raise a glass to a decade of publishing great Scottish children’s books.

Floris Books acquired the Kelpies list in 2002 from fellow Scottish publisher Canongate but it wasn’t until 2003 that they published their first original Kelpie, The Chaos Clock by Gill Arbuthnott.

The orginal Kelpies list of classic Scottish authors such as George Mackay Brown, Kathleen Fidler and Mollie Hunter have been joined over the last decade by new Scottish writing talent such as Royal Mail Award Winner Lari Don and Amazon bestseller Daniela Sacerdoti.

New Teen List

KelpiesTeen, a new range of quality Scottish fiction for young teens, will be launched early next year with three titles by existing Floris Books authors — Lari Don, author of the First Aid for Fairies series; Roy Gill, author of The Daemon Parallel; and Gill Arbuthnott, author of Dark Spell.

The KelpiesTeen range will be first of its kind specifically for Scottish interest books. Lockwood-Holmes commented:

“Scottish children have grown up with Picture Kelpies and Kelpies, so we’re delighted to be launching KelpiesTeen which will enable those children to keep reading great Scottish authors and stories into their teenage years.”

Submissions are now welcome for the KelpiesTeen list and should include a significant Scottish connection.

via Book Trade Announcements – Scottish Children’s Imprint Celebrates 10th Anniversary And Announces New Teen List.