Authors Live with Polly Dunbar and Long Nose PuppetsIf you teach nursery to P3, and you love picture books (and puppets) you’ll love Polly Dunbar’s free live event on 25 April! Register your class to watch and you could win one of five class sets of Arthur’s Dream Boat.
The waiting is almost over! 30,000 votes have been counted, and the winners of this year’s Scottish Children’s Book Awards will be announced on World Book Day, 7 March. You can watch the ceremony live on GLOW – click the link above for details
Can you tell a story in 50 words?Stories have three parts: beginnings, middles and endings. Simple. However, can you cover all three in 50 words taking this picture as your inspiration? Enter our 50 word story competition and find out for a chance to win a lovely Literary Gift Company prize.
Photos of the sculptures discovered in the Book Week Scotland treasure hunt, and information on where you can see them are now on the Scottish Book Trust website
ReadIT: engaging teens with reading and writing by creating Book Trailers
Join Shirley Brice Heath as she talks from Harvard about young people’s reading habits, preferences and how they choose to interact with texts. Then hear from Graeme Lamb, Bell Baxter High School, and Louise Walker, Maxwelltown High School, as they discuss the uses of book trailers and share some of the skills and understanding they have developed from participating in the ReadIT course this year. ReadIT is a European commission funded project which aims to develop a tested teaching methodology for book trailers.
If you are interested in attending, please send your name and contact details to Antonia.Clark@scottishbooktrust.com Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Scottish Book Trust will be running the first Book Week Scotland, a national celebration of books and reading, from 26th November to 2nd December 2012.
During Book Week Scotland we will be working with a wide range of partner organisations, including libraries, schools, museums and workplaces, to deliver a packed programme of free projects and events, bringing Scots of all ages and from all walks of life together to celebrate the pleasures of books and reading.
As part of the celebrations, we will be publishing a special book of writing celebrating Scotland‘s favourite places. Written by members of the public and well-known authors, thousands of copies of My Favourite Place will be distributed free throughout Scotland during Book Week Scotland. A free downloadable audio book will also be available.
We have appointed five Readers in Residence, each of whom will work with a Scottish library to stimulate interest in reading through a range of innovative projects. Learn what they plan to do here.
We will also be selecting members of the League of Extraordinary Booklovers from all the applications that have come in. Thanks to everyone who applied!
Scottish Book Trust will be running the first Book Week Scotland, a national celebration of books and reading, from 26 November to 2 December 2012.
During Book Week Scotland Scottish Book Trust will be working with a wide range of partner organisations, including libraries, schools, museums and workplaces, to deliver a full programme of free projects and events, bringing Scots of all ages and from all walks of life together to celebrate the pleasures of books and reading.
They are currently looking for volunteers to join the League of Extraordinary Booklovers. For more information on this visit the Scottish Book Trust’s website: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookweekscotland.
Authors Live: Roald Dahl Day Celebration
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/event/authors-live-roald-dahl-day-celebration
To celebrate Roald Dahl Day (and the 30th birthday of the BFG) Scottish Book Trust is streaming a celebratory event live from the BBC on September 13th. A great way to provide a focus for the new term’s work. It’s suitable for P2-P7 – register to watch it now
Funding Available for Author Visits
Did you know Scottish Book Trust provides funding to help you bring a writer/illustrator in to help with your projects? Whether you’re a school, book group, community learning group, writers’ circle or something else entirely, you’ll find lots of information in Scottish Book Trust’s newly revamped Live Literature Funding section.
Scottish Book Trust Needs You!
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookweekscotland
Do you love books, and want to share your passion with others? Join Scottish Book Trust’s League of Extraordinary Booklovers, a team of book enthusiasts that will help others with advice and support during Book Week Scotland!
The search is on for Scotland’s Favourite Place
Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland have launched an exciting new writing project to encourage people to write about the place in Scotland that they love the most.
My Favourite Place in Scotland is running from 19 March to 31 August 2012, and in that time Scottish Book Trust wants to involve everyone in Scotland in building a written picture of Scotland’s best-loved places.
Submissions should be made to Scottish Book Trust website and can be written in a huge variety of different forms, such as a story, poem, song lyrics, a short play or sketch, a letter or even diary entry.
Each submission will feature on Scottish Book Trust’s website and a selection of the most interesting and inspiring offerings will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland and published in a book in late 2012.
Submissions can be made online at http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/myfavouriteplace or by post to My Favourite Place, Scottish Book Trust, Sandeman House, Trunks Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR.
The closing date for entries is 31 August 2012.
For more information read Scottish Book Trust press release.
10th May 2012 @11am P4-7 Ages 8-12
You have seen him on your TV, now watch him on your whiteboard! Multi-talented funny man David Walliams will be talking about his hilarious new book Gangsta Granny.
Guaranteed to cause an epidemic of smiles to breakout across the UK.
14th June 2012 @11am Nursery – P3 Ages 3-7
Join us in Celebrating Summer of Song and the Olympic Torch Relay in Scotland* with award winning author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers. Olivers’ interactive illustration workshop will guide your pupils through drawing characters from his new series The Hueys.
Tune in for an exclusive reading of The Huey’s and a world exclusive performance of an Oliver Jeffers inspired song!
*Summer of Song was developed by Creative Scotland, and is endorsed by EventScotland, the Scottish Government and the London Organising Commitee of the Olympic Games
