by IBBY | Sep 7, 2020 | IBBYLink Autumn 2019
Review: Children’s Literature in a Multiliterate World back to IBBYLink Autumn 2019 Dr Maureen A. Farrell, University of Glasgow This fascinating book brings together some of the papers that were first presented as part of the 35th IBBY International Congress in New...
by IBBY | Sep 7, 2020 | IBBYLink Autumn 2019
Selkies in Scotland back to IBBYLink Autumn 2019 Ann Lazim I believe my first encounter with a selkie was in a haunting retelling in Shirley Hughes’ compilation of stories and poems Stories by Firelight (1993). A girl staying with her mother’s artist friend Morag...
by IBBY | Sep 7, 2020 | IBBYLink Autumn 2019
Breaking New Ground in Young Scottish Fiction back to IBBYLink Autumn 2019 Julie Bertagna Almost every day right now, someone contacts me on social media to say how young climate activist Greta Thunberg reminds them uncannily of Mara, the teenage heroine of my...
by IBBY | Sep 7, 2020 | IBBYLink Autumn 2019
The Making of a Scottish Author back to IBBYLink Autumn 2019 Theresa Breslin One of my earliest memories is of ‘joining the library’ which, at that time, was a big old house in the local park near where I lived. My hometown, Kirkintilloch, was a fort on the Antonine...
by IBBY | Sep 7, 2020 | IBBYLink Autumn 2019
Braw Books for Bairns o Aw Ages back to IBBYLink Autumn 2019 James Robertson It is more than 20 years since two writers first began to discuss the possibility of setting up a Scots language imprint as part of a wider project to make Scots more audible, more visible...
