Publication Day Review! The last thing Livia wants to do is leave her home and friends in Scotland to work in her gran’s cafe in Italy but life has other plans for her summer holidays. Publication Day Review! The last thing Livia wants to do is leave her home and friends in Scotland to work…
The Great Highland Games Chase is an absolute triumph of a picture book with many an engaging element to have little readers demanding multiple reads! So, what is there to love, you ask? Let me count the ways: 1. a lovable, mischievous Scottie dog 2. flawless, bouncy rhyme 3. ever-mounting mayhem to get children…
It’s 1746 and the Battle of Culloden is near its end. Young Archie and his cousin Meg, both too young to fight, watch from afar as each clan falls to the enemy who had appeared as if out of nowhere. The Jacobites defeated, the moor is now eerily silent as they count the cost of…
Selfish Daisy Douglas considers herself the ‘life and soul of the party’ no matter who she offends along the way. Her reputation for being loud and brash proceeds her, to the point that she is unaware of the detrimental effect her life choices have on her friendships and family relationships. When she spectacularly fails to…
Since the death of her dad in a fire that she survived, 13 year old Anna moves to Scotland to live with her estranged mum. Having Asperger’s Syndrome she now has to find a way to change her coping mechanisms to fit with her new life in a strange place with unfamiliar people – ‘a…
The very lovely Barbara Henderson is a writer (Fir for Luck came out in 2016, Punch in 2017), puppeteer and drama teacher living in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland. She loves books, nature’s wild places, history, baking, folk music (she fiddles badly in her church band), old buildings, mosaics, Celtic Christianity, thick woolly jumpers… With…
Inverness 1889, accused of starting a fire that destroys the market and the livelihood of many in the city, 12 year-old Phin runs for his life. Escaping the harsh hands of a bitter uncle and an angry mob of traders, he finds himself in-tow with a family of travelling entertainers. Desperate not to be found…
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Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
I often hope to find interviews with Margaret Wild who fascinates me and whose work I adore. Thoroughly enjoyed this…