The days are getting longer, the nights are getting shorter, and today is a whole day for celebrating books! Lots of our authors have been out and about this week, shouting from the rooftops about how great books are and getting school kids using their imaginations to create brilliant stories. Read on to find...
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We are absolutely delighted to announce that Kelpies author Alex McCall was named as one of the winners at the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2015 today, during a special ceremony at Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms attended by 600 young people from all over Scotland. Alex won the Younger Readers (8-11 years) category with his egg-cellent...
Read more →At Floris Books, we love libraries and passionately believe in their importance within the community. Libraries are safe-havens but they are also places of adventure and magic and freedom. To celebrate Scottish school libraries and their dedicated staff, we launched our inaugural Kelpies School Library Competition. Our aim? To fill the shelves of one...
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In a very exciting first for Floris, our Picture Kelpie Wee Granny’s Magic Bag will appear on the big screen – well, the television screen at least! – this Burns Night (January 25th). Wee Granny’s Magic Bag, written by Elizabeth McKay and illustrated by Maria Bogade, will be read by none other than the...
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Once upon a time, in a kingdom far far away, three talented young illustrators were paired up with three award winning Scottish authors and storytellers to create Picture Kelpies’ Traditional Scottish Tales. People traveled from miles around to visit their local bookshops and marvel at the wondrous books that had been created. Some even...
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At Floris Books, we love our libraries. We recognise that libraries are at the heart of communities, and we passionately believe in the importance of Scottish school libraries with dedicated and knowledgeable staff. To celebrate Book Week Scotland and the launch of our brand new Scottish Primary School Library Competition, every member of the...
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At Floris Books, we bring lots of books into the English language market that were originally written in foreign languages. At large annual book fairs, we meet up with foreign language publishing houses to find out more about their books. If we find a book that we think would do well in an English-speaking...
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Illustrator of… Last week during our Twitter take-over, #FlorisDesign brought you some of our favourite images from The Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales and this week we were lucky enough to have a face-to-face chat with the artist, the wonderful Kate Leiper. Read on to find out about her inspiration, her...
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The Kelpies Design & Illustration Prize 2015 has officially opened and everyone at Floris is patiently waiting for this year’s entries to start rolling in. In 2014, we launched the Prize with the aim of discovering new children’s design talent in Scotland. We thought that The Sign of the Black Dagger by award-winning author...
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Fresh from our success at the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2014, where Kelpies author Janis Mackay took home the Younger Readers Award for her time-travel-trouble adventure The Accidental Time Traveller, we are proud to announce that we have had 3 books shortlisted once again for the 2015 Awards! Our three shortlisted books are: Pyrate’s...
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