We are very excited that our wonderful book Nip Nebs by Susi Briggs and Ruthie Redden has been shortlisted for the prestigious first Scots Language Awards. The book has been included in the Books Fer Bairns category alongside three other excellent titles. We’re very proud of the fact that Nip Nebs is the only book […]
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Celebrating Nip Nebs!
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 […]
The Scottish Granny Reads our Scots Book
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 […]
Busy Time for Nip Nebs Team
It’s been a busy weekend for the Nip Nebs author and illustrator Susi Briggs and Ruthie Redden. They were at Waterstones in Dumfries for most of Saturday due to popular demand! They met lots of lovely people who are so enthusiastic about this little book in Scots. We’re getting great feedback from teachers who see […]
First Book Signing Event for Nip Nebs’ duo.
First time author Susi Briggs and illustrator Ruthie Redden were captured on camera seeing their book for the first time. The friends had been working on the idea of the picture book for four years and were thinking they would have to self publish using crowd funding because of the story being in Scots. But […]
Nip Nebs Has Arrived!
We’re delighted to announce that our fantastic new book has now arrived back from the printers and the first pre-ordered copies are now in the post. We’re just thrilled with this beautiful book by Susi Briggs and Ruthie Redden. It features a lovely foil embellishment on the cover which is a first for Curly Tale […]
Fabulous New Scots Picture Book
FANFARE PLEASE! We are delighted to announce that we are currently (impatiently) awaiting the arrival of our new picture book ‘Nip Nebs.’ We’re hoping this beautiful book will be at Curly Tale HQ in Wigtown (Scotland’s National Booktown) during early December, but you can pre-order through our shop on this website and we’ll post […]