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Designed for children at pre-school and primary level right
through to Higher Still, these books combine imaginative text and
delightful illustration to bring Scots language reading into both
home and school.
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Animal
ABC
Susan Rennie, illustrated by Karen Sutherland
Animal ABC is aimed at young children from pre-school to lower
primary, but its humour and warmth will appeal to readers of all
ages.
Age range: 4-7
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Sweetieraptors - A Book O Scots
Dinasaurs
Susan Rennie, illustrated by Julie Lacome
This enchanting volume brings fifteen hitherto unknown dinosaurs
to life the Jaggysaurus with his pinty spikes, the girning
Dreichosaur who greets aw day and the fearsome Skelpotrodon with
his vicious tail. Susan Rennies rhyming couplets introduce young
readers to a wide range of colourful Scots words, while the
charming images by award-winning illustrator Julie Lacome intrigue
and inspire.
Age Range: Pre-school to early primary school.
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Eck the
Bee: A Scots word activity book
Ann Matheson and James Robertson, illustrated and designed by Karen
Sutherland
Meet Eck, the friendly bee who buzzes his way through not only
the alphabet but also a whole range of adventures and activities,
introducing primary school readers to hundreds of Scots words and
phrases. Eck the Bee is a work and play book which combines
learning with fun.
Age range: 6-10
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Gaberlunzie Joe's Pure
Ghosters
edited by Matthew Fitt
This themed, linked short story collection contains a mixture of
horror, ghost, humorous, and moral stories all presented by the
same thirteen-year old character, Gaberlunzie Joe. The twelve
stories come from the pens of some of Scotland's leading
contemporary writers in Scots.
Age range: 12+
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The
Compact Coo - The Itchy Coo Audio Collection
Various Contributors
A much asked-for resource for the classroom, this CD contains
extracts from the entire Itchy Coo series - material from currently
available titles as well as those to be published later in
2003.
Age range: 5-15
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Double
Heider - Twa Novellas in Scots
Loon by Sheena Blackhall
The Girnin Gates by Hamish MacDonald
These two novellas on related themes but very different in
approach and narrative voice are bound back to back or
heelstergowdie, the Scots for back to front or head over heels
Age range: 13+
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Gaberlunzie Joe's Pure
Ghosters
edited by Matthew Fitt
This themed, linked short story collection contains a mixture of
horror, ghost, humorous, and moral stories all presented by the
same thirteen-year old character, Gaberlunzie Joe. The twelve
stories come from the pens of some of Scotland's leading
contemporary writers in Scots.
Age range: 12+
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Kat an
Doug on Planet Perjink
Susan Rennie, illustrated by Dave Sutton
In their first adventure, Kat an Doug visited Planet Fankle,
where everything was in a guddle. This time they go to Planet
Perjink. Here, everything is shiny and fantoosh, the inhabitants
keep off the grass by flying, and the idea of dirt is enough to
make a pernickety Perjinkian faint.
Age Range: 5-10
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Kat an
Doug on Planet Fankle
Susan Rennie, illustrated by Dave Sutton
Kat wakes up on her birthday to find a cyberdug called Doug in
her bedroom. But Doug is no mere toy - he is a real cyberdug and
he's happy to take Kat on his fact-finding missions among the
stars.
"The children absolutely love it!" Primary Headteacher,
Lanarkshire.
Age Range: 5-10
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The Hoose o
Haivers
Matthew Fitt, Susan Rennie and James Robertson
Welcome to the Hoose o Haivers "a place at the tap o a muckle
moontain whaur there isna a corner o the world that canna be seen,
nor a soond made in the haill universe that canna be heard".
Loosely adapted from Ovid's Metamorphoses, this selection
retells ancient myths (how Daedalus and Icarus were the world's
first high-fliers, Phaeton took the sun's chariot and became the
first joy-rider, and Heracles was the original hard man), with
startling, moving and often hilarious results.
Age Range: 9-14
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A
Scots Parliament
James Robertson
For the story of the Scottish Parliament, from its origins to
the present day, what better language to tell it in than Scots?
This lively introduction to the history and workings of the
institution at the heart of Scotland's government shows how Scots
can be used in a modern, non-fictional context. Ideal for school
project work, development of ideas of citizenship, historical
research, etc.
Age Range: 12+
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The Smoky Smirr o Rain: A Scots
Anthology
Matthew Fitt and James Robertson
This packed anthology contains a vast selection of literature in
Scots. From the Renaissance Makars to contemporary authors,
together with work in translation from a number of different
languages, it gathers into one volume writers as diverse as Robert
Henryson, William Dunbar, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Jean
Elliot, Walter Scott, Hugh MacDiarmid, Liz Lochead, Charles
Baudelaire and Feodor Dostoevsky, as well as some of the finest
anonymous ballads and songs ever composed.
Age Range: 15+
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Tam O
Shanter's Big Night Oot
Matthew Fitt and James Robertson
This collection of eight plays has been conceived and written by
teachers and pupils from all over Scotland. Taking a poem, story or
historical event as its starting-point, each piece retells an
episode in modern Scots, using dialects and forms that reflect the
way Scots is spoken across the country today.
Age Range: 11-14
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