It’s always exciting to see the nominations for the CILIP Carnegie Medal are announced. But yesterday’s announcement was a particularly exciting one for us because one of our KelpiesTeen novels — Mind Blind by Lari Don — has been nominated! A mind-bending thriller for young teens, Mind Blind follows 14-year-old Ciaran Bain — a...
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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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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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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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