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My newest collection of international myths and legends contains a rather unusual Scottish variant of the Frog Prince fairytale, in which the girl most definitely does not kiss the frog! Serpents & We...
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Getting ready for my second Eedinburgh Book Festival event tomorrow – talking about Scottish folklore and how it sparks the imagination, as part of the schools programme. I’ll be chatting with primary...
If you like your Scottish fairy tales dark and beautiful, with strong girls rescuing mysterious boys, and with added wildcates, wolves, swans and snakes, then The Tale of Tam Linn might be for you… An...
Children's Book of the Month: The Tale of Tam Linn | Scottish Book Trust
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The Tale of Tam Linn (based on the old Borders ballad) is the Scottish Book Trust’s book of the month, and the wonderful illustrator Philip Longson is celebrating with a one week sale of his enchantin...
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For fans of Scottish fairy tales and folktales - the Scottish Book Trust’s Book of the Month this May is my retelling of Borders’ story The Tale of Tam Linn, gorgeously illustrated by Philip Longson. ...
Children's Book of the Month: The Tale of Tam Linn
Author: Retold by Lari Don | Age Category:4-7yrs Synopsis/Review Tam Linn is one of Scotland's most distincitive fairy tales. It may be best known as a Border ballad, but it has also been retold in ma...
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Bringing Scottish folkore to life... Here’s an amazing blog post about how a designer puts a picture book together. (The picture book she uses as an example just happens to be the retelling of Scotti...
The Floris Books Picture Book Process
Once upon a time, a writer wrote a story and a publishing house decided that it was so fantastic, they wanted to share it with the rest of the world. "This story will delight children so much mor
This is very exciting – an art exhibition of illustrations for Floris Books' three gorgeous new Scottish traditional tale books. It’s a chance to see Philip Longson's wonderful pictures for the Borde...
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Happy Book Week Scotland! I have a busy week ahead - over the next 7 days I’ll be travelling to West Lothian, the Borders, Angus, Fife (twice), Perth and Kinross, and Argyll, to chat about books and s...
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If you're a fan of selkies, centaurs or phoenixes, or even just a fan of the ingenious things publishers do to shout about new covers, check out the Fabled Beasts takeover of Discover Kelpies twitter ...
Clip clop CRASH! Yann and the Fabled Beasts gang are taking over DiscoverKelpies for a day!
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My newest book! The Tale of Tam Linn is a retelling of the old Border ballad about Janet saving Tam Linn from the Fairy Queen - it's my favourite Scottish fairytale, and Edinburgh College of Art gradu...
