Picture Books

The Authorfy website is full of great resources for young writers – and for teachers, librarians, parents and guardians. Vivian French – whose latest novel, The Runaways of Haddington [...]

Scaredy Bat is the lyrical, engaging and visually stunning new picture book from our very own Anders Frang, illustrator of ‘The Amazing Animal Atlas of Scotland’ and ‘World of [...]

The Fairy Song is the beautiful new picture book by renowned writer & storyteller Janis Mackay and talented illustrator Ruchi Mhasane; weaving words & pictures together to create [...]

Vivian French has been working with the fitness coach (among so many other things!) Joe Wicks on a series of children’s picture books about the Burpee Bears. The illustrator is Paul Howard [...]

It’s great to see bookshops reopening – how we have missed browsing bookshop shelves, eavesdropping on other readers’ enthusiasms (and criticisms!) and asking advice of [...]

It’s back! The annual XPoNorth Writers’ Tweet Pitch! We’ll be among the many literary agents and publishers glued to their twitter feeds from 9am to 9pm on January 15th. You can [...]

Storyteller Ailie Finlay and artist Kate Leiper have been collaborating on a series of stories and poems, commissioned by the Wigtown Book Festival. Every month, from November 2020 to April 2021, [...]

Anders Frang is a freelance illustrator from Denmark. He studied at the Danish Design School in Copenhagen as well as Edinburgh College of Art and he is currently based in Edinburgh. He has been [...]

It’s been an odd summer without book festivals to visit. But there was something rather nice about sitting in the comfort of my own home, on a frankly disgusting, misty-moisty August day in [...]

Congratulations to Hollis Kurman and Barroux – their first picture book together, Hello! A Counting Book of Kindnesses is out now, published by Otter-Barry Books. It’s a beautiful, [...]