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!’

If you could bring a writer in to inspire you and your pupils, who would it be? What type of writer could help your pupils the most?

In November last year Jeffy Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series did a very special event for St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh. Anna, a pupil at the school tells us more...