Welcome tae Blethertoun Braes - a toun like any other toun in Scotland. It's maybe even a wee bit like your toun or a toun near you. There's a library, a railway station, a supermarket, a video store, a museum, a caf and many other places where the local people come and go. And Blethertoun Braes is hotchin with weird and wonderful characters - vets and dentists, retired colonels and hard-working bricklayers, posh wifies and fish gutters, kirk ministers and check-out lassies, all going about their daily business and sometimes getting themselves in a right fankle as the day wears on. Some of them are young, some auld, some smart, some glaikit, but they're all folk you might think you recognise from your own streets. And then there's a few really weird characters you'll not have met before, like the wee green man that bides in the bottle bank, the warlock waiting to see the doctor, and the bogles and ghaists that come out to play at night in the kirkyaird and the park.

So slip into your baffies and settle down with a book that will take you through a whole day in Blethertoun Braes, a place where the greengrocer bursts into song, the polis has an unusual way of catching bike-thieves, and the fitbaw team is even mair terrible than your team on its worst ever showing.

A follow-up to the highly successful King o the Midden, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Scottish Arts Council Childrens Book of the Year awards, Blethertoun Braes is another book of manky, mingin rhymes in Scots, humorously illustrated in full colour by Bob Dewar.

Contributors include James Robertson, Matthew Fitt, Kirsty Grieve, Sheena Blackhall, Gregor Steele, Angus Glen, Ali Christie, Lydia Robb, Brent Hodgson, James McGonigal and Hamish MacDonald.