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Did you know that long ago Scotland was buried under a layer of ice one kilometre thick? Or that Orkney’s neolithic village, Skara Brae is older than the Great Pyramid in Egypt? Or that the [...]

To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we’re highlighting Emily Dodd’s novella for 8 to 12 year-olds, Surfing the Moon, which was published last year by HarperCollins in their [...]

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 [...]

Susan Rennie is one of the UK’s top lexicographers, a renowned writer in Scots, and translator into Scots. She is one of the co-founders of the ground-breaking Itchy Coo publishing [...]

We’re just back from this annual trade fair – a gathering of people from all over the world who work in some way with books for young people. So, walking the long rows of colourful [...]