Every year as part of the Kelpies Prize, we look for the best unpublished children’s fiction with a Scottish twist. Since February, our editors have been working their way through a record number of entries to find our three finalists for this year’s prize – and they certainly weren’t disappointed. We’re delighted to announce...
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This year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our Kelpies imprint of Scottish children’s novels. Floris took over the Kelpies list from fellow Scottish publisher Canongate in 2002 but it wasn’t until 2003 that we published our first original Kelpie, The Chaos Clock by Gill Arbuthnott. To celebrate this milestone we gathered our...
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We were thrilled to be featured in an article in The Herald newspaper following the announcement that we published all three books in the shortlist for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2013 Younger Readers category (8-11 years old). All the Floris team are proud of our three talented shortlisted authors Caroline Clough, Janis Mackay...
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Floris Books have made history by being the first publisher to publish all three shortlisted books in one category at the Scottish Children’s Book Awards. The three shortlisted books are: • Black Tide by Caroline Clough • The Accidental Time Traveller by Janis Mackay • Really Weird Removals.com by Daniela Sacerdoti All three books,...
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Throughout literary history, one type of story has seen continued popularity – the fairy tale. Recent years have seen a wealth of TV and movie adaptations. So what accounts for this continued adoration? Why, over 200 years since they were alive, do the stories of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen remain a...
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Once there was a man and a woman who longed for a child. They waited many years, and eventually the woman found she was pregnant with a baby. At the back of their house was a little window from which they could see a splendid garden full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs....
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Really Weird Removals.com by Daniela Sacerdoti is a children’s novel from our Kelpies range of Scottish books for 8-12 year olds. Visit the Kelpies section of our website to discover more children’s novels.