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Checkout My Basket: £0.00 0 itemsJayne 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 […]
We’re very excited that Wheedleneeps is now back from the printer and available to order in our online shop! This beautifully illustrated story tells the dark tale of a turnip loving brownie who doesn’t care who gets hurt in the path of his runaway greed for the root. But the woodland animals join forces to […]
We’re delighted that two of our authors will be taking part in this year’s Wigtown Book Festival which runs from the 21st to the 30th September 2018. This year is particularly exciting as it’s the 20th birthday of the Wigtown becoming the Scotland’s National Book Town and the Book Festival. Susi Briggs will be bringing her […]
We’re really looking forward to doing a reading and activity event this Saturday (4th August 2018) at a lovely cafe in Edinburgh called Beetroot Sauvage. We’ll be there from 11am with our Beltie stories and fun activities. Shalla used to live in Edinburgh so is really looking forward to going back to the city. And […]
We’re delighted that the new book from storyteller Sandy McKnight is about to go to the printer! Shalla has been busy creating the most wonderful pen and ink drawings to illustrate the book and her incredible pointillism technique means that they reflect hours of intensive work. But they’re worth it and the finished book will […]