With the weather getting more wintery by the minute, we at Floris found ourselves in need of something pretty yet practical to keep our necks warm. So we decided to make these gorgeous scarves from Ute Fischer’s Weaving with Children book. Here’s how: Materials and Tools • Scarf mesh, black, 1.5 metres (just over...
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Floris Books is excited to announce the expansion of our Kelpies list with the introduction of KelpiesTeen, a brand new range of quality Scottish fiction for young teens! In spring 2014 we’ll publish the first four books in the new KelpiesTeen range, which is aimed at readers aged 11 to 14. The exciting novels...
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Arrrrr, me scurvy Floris seadogs! Did ye ken that Thursday 19th September is International Talk Like A Pirate Day? Wha’ d’ye mean ‘NO’? Would ye like t’ try again? Did ye savvy it’s also th’ day Pyrate’s Boy by E.B. Colin, a handsome pirate yarn from the beauties at Floris Books, can fin’lly be...
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It is a thrill to announce that Floris Books have been Commended in the Scottish Publisher of the Year Award 2013! We were shortlisted, alongside five other publishers, in early August for the Saltire Scottish Publisher of the Year Award, which is initiated and administered by the Saltire Society and supported by Creative Scotland...
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After piles of entries, six months of reading, three shortlisted authors and one glamourous awards ceremony, we are finally able to announce the winner of the Kelpies Prize 2013. A hearty congratulations to Alex McCall and his cracking tale of fowl play, Attack of the Giant Robot Chickens! Joined by Barbara Henderson and Shona...
Read more →We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s first annual Scottish Publisher of the Year Award. The Saltire Society announced the creation of the award earlier this year and we, along with 18 other publishers, submitted our application and anxiously awaited the results. Floris have been shortlisted with...
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Every year as part of the Kelpies Prize, we look for the best unpublished children’s fiction with a Scottish twist.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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