Saturday, February 4th was a special day. It was National Libraries Day - a day to celebrate libraries and everything they offer to their communities. Through the twitter grapevine, I heard about all sorts of wonderful special events: reading flash mobs, city-library crawls, special Bookbug Sessions and author visits to libraries. The day was truly a celebration of libraries.

Looking for some new books to use in the classroom? Check out the recommendations below, from teachers and pupils around Scotland!

This is a call to action - whatever you're doing this weekend, make some time on Saturday: your local library needs your love.

Tomorrow is National Libraries Day 2012. We would love to know what you’ve got planned. Which is your local library? What books will you be borrowing? If you’re not sure how to mark the day here are a few things going on in libraries around Scotland which you may want to check out!

It's a challenge both to stimulate pupils to write and also to make them feel comfortable enough to share work.

Children (and even some adults) love playing with wooden blocks. There is something ultimately satisfying about stacking, sorting, shaping and building. And sometimes the best bit of building something up is knocking it down.

Back for a second year, and now taking place simultaneously in the UK, Ireland, USA and Germany on 23 April 2012, World Book Night offers avid readers the opportunity to spread their love of books amongst those who perhaps haven’t quite got the reading bug yet.

The subject of this blog will be quite familiar to colleagues at Scottish Book Trust who have the misfortune to sit near me in the office. So I’ve decided to step up on the soapbox and share my grumbling with the wider world.

This is an exciting week for Scottish Book Trust's children's team. It's the final week before the voting deadline for the Scottish Children's Book Awards.

‘Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,  

Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!’