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Finette the beautiful Red Setter takes centre stage in this illustration from our forthcoming book Mustard and Pepper. The story features the children and dogs of Sir Walter Scott and here Sophia, the eldest daughter is taking her turn to look for her little sister’s lost necklace. The artist William Gorman trained as an illustrator […]
Well done lads says Walter. We’re on the home straight now with our next book Mustard and Pepper. We’re very excited about it as the illustrations by William Gorman are really wonderful and fit brilliantly with the charming story by Alasdair Hutton. The book is set in the Regency period and features the children and […]
New illustration for Charlotte’s Woolly Yarn Earlier this year we were (to be honest) surprised to discover that we had almost run out of copies of Charlotte’s Woolly Yarn, one of our first books written and illustrated by Shalla Gray. We know it’s one of our most popular titles but even so we were somewhat […]
We’re publishing a new book by Alasdair Hutton and Will Gorman called Mustard and Pepper featuring Dandie Dinmont terriers
Jayne and Shalla want to wish everyone a very happy New Year! We’re really looking forward to 2019 with some wonderful books in the pipeline like Mustard and Pepper and The Strange Visitor! Thank you for all your support and keep following our journey – it’s a lot of fun. Happy 2019 from Jayne and […]
We have a great offer this Christmas as a thank you to all our customers (old and new). Just order any two books from our online shop and we’ll send you a copy of The Quite Big Rock for free! Order any four books and we’ll add a copy of The Quite Big Rock for […]
It’s almost a year since we launched Nip Nebs so we took the opportunity to celebrate with some fizz. Author Susi Briggs and illustrator Ruthie Redden have been a great team to work with and we’re making plans to publishing their next book too. Publishing a book in Scots was a big risk for […]
We were VERY excited when we realised that our wonderful winter book Nip Nebs by Susi Briggs and Ruthe Redden had been featured on The Scottish Granny Facebook page. Just click on The Scottish Granny to follow the link. The page first went viral when the expatriate Scot, now living in Australia, was filmed reading […]
We can’t believe it’s three years since we took over the children’s bookshop in Wigtown! We’re pictured here with the very wonderful Fiona Murphy who had owned The Box of Frogs bookshop for fifteen years and been an important part of the growth of Scotland’s National Book Town. She was a very hard act […]
We’re all geared up for this year’s amazing Wigtown Book Festival. We’ve got more wonderful books in stock than we’ve every had before and we’re looking forward to meeting lots of lovely people over the next ten days. There are packed festival programmes for both children and adults, and we have two of our […]