The Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour
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The Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour brings authors and illustrators to a city, town hall or school near you.
We have been touring children's authors and illustrators for 10 years now and have visited every area in Scotland. We bring all these famous authors to schools to talk to you and your friends, sign your books and answer your questions about reading, writing and their own work. Ask your teacher to get in touch with us and we might be able to come to your school soon!
"I loved it. What else can I say? If there's another one I'm going." Emily, St Joseph's Primary.
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2008 Tour
February Andy Stanton click here for more information
April Heather Dyer click here for more information
May Michael Rosen click here for more information
September Simon Bartram see below
October Chris Mould
December Nick Ward
The Scottish Friendly Simon Bartram Book Tour
Scottish Book Trust is taking the award-winning picture book author and illustrator Simon Bartram out for a three day Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour of Moray in September 2008. We are very excited about touring Simon – his illustrations are just beautiful! Click here to find out more about Simon's books
Simon Bartram loves writing and illustrating children's books. In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award and in 2004 won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award for Man on The Moon (a Day in the life of Bob). He has just finished the sequel, Bob’s Best Ever Friend, which will be published in September 2008. He has also worked with Templar publishing on Watch out for Sprouts! This is a unique collection of poems, pictures, doodles and serious brain thinking.
Simon graduated from Birmingham Polytechnic with a First Class degree in illustration in 1990. He now lives in Newcastle with his wife and son.
The Scottish Friendly Michael Rosen Book Tour
For Michael's statement on The Harry Potter debate click here.
The Children's Laureate came to Scotland in May 2008!
We took Michael Rosen, the current Children's Laureate, to five Scottish cities in May 2008. You can see pictures from the tour and read children's comments here.
To read Michael Rosen's exclusive new poem for the tour with the Scottish Book Trust click here. To read the teaching resources for the tour, including guidance and ideas on working with five of Michael Rosen's poems, click here.
Michael Rosen's Scottish Tour:
12th May - Edinburgh
13th May - Glasgow
14th May - Dundee
15th May - Aberdeen
16th May - Inverness
Michael Rosen is one of the UK's finest poets for children and has been instrumental in opening up children's access to poetry in ordinary language that children actually use. He is the author of many collections of poems for children including Quick, Let's Get Out of Here and Michael Rosen's Book of Very Silly Poems. He was named as the 2007-2009 Children's Laureate this year, in recognition of his substantial contribution to children's literature.
If you want to find out more about Michael, watch some videos of Michael or read some more of his poems, visit:
