Did you tune in to watch Stargazing Live with Professor Brian Cox on BBC last night? We certainly did and now we’ve been inspired to delve back into our essential Stargazers Almanac 2015 to find more tips for stargazing and what to watch out for in the night sky this month. Bob Mizon’s beautifully...
Read more →If you tuned into BBC for Stargazing Live with Professor Brian Cox last night and have been inspired to do some stargazing of your own, we’ve got just the thing for you. Today we’re sharing a fun, family activity from Walter Kraul’s Astronomy for Young and Old, the perfect introduction to astronomy for children....
Read more →Wrap up warm, get outside, and look up. Professor Brian Cox is back with Stargazing Live on BBC 2. If you’re an intrepid stargazer yourself you can join the Floris Books team and tune in to BBC 2 at 8pm tonight. For the next couple of days we’ll be sharing our own tips for...
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Once upon a time, a writer wrote a novel and a publishing house decided that it was so fantastic, they wanted to share it with the rest of the world. “This story will reach so many more children if it is has a wonderful cover!” the writer said. “We agree,” said the publisher, “we’ll...
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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...
Read more →Illustrator of… The Giant Robot Chickens are back and they want revenge! Their illustrator, Luke Newell, isn’t quite as vengeful, though his cover illustrations sure do pack a punch! #FlorisDesign interviewed Luke to find out how he makes those chickens on his eggs-cellent covers for Alex McCall’s Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens and...
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Winter might mean rainy days, but that needn’t mean afternoons of boredom. Here to help is our brand new craft book, Paper Folding with Children. With easy-to-follow tutorials and lots of colour photographs, it’s full to the brim with bright, fun origami projects for children. So make the most of that rainy day and...
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All through January, here on the Floris Blog we will be celebrating the new. New ways of thinking, new ways of interacting with the world around us, and new ways of living and working meaningfully. New year, new you! Today we invite you to join Simon Robinson and Maria Moraes Robinson, authors of Holonomics,...
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