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The Tale o Tod Lapraik

The Scots in Schools website features a collection of literature written in Scots or translated from standard English into Scots.

One of the stories is a comic version of The Tale o Tod Lapraik by Robert Louis Stevenson, which you can download to read in colour or black and white, or listen to as a n audio version (on a different website – see below):

“Robert Louis Stevenson’s horror story The Tale o Tod Lapraik is a masterpiece of prose written in the Scots language. Scots Hoose is delighted to present Gary Welsh’s world-class artwork in this exciting new comic version of Stevenson’s classic story of suspense and cruelty set in the Firth of Forth on the mysterious Bass Rock.”

http://www.scotsinschools.co.uk/secondary.html