Tag: Scottish Children’s Book Awards

'A love of reading......at its most powerful, transforms lives' (Sophie Moxon, Acting Director, Scottish Book Trust) For all the gloom and doom we hear about parents who never read to their children, teenagers who can...

EDINBURGH AUTHOR WINS SCOTLAND’S BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD Award-winning Edinburgh-based children’s author Janis Mackay was today announced as the winner of the Younger Readers (8-11 years) category of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2013, for...

Two Edinburgh children's authors have won the Scottish Children's Book Awards held in Dundee today.    Jonathan Meres won for his book The World of Norm: May Contain Nuts for 8-11 years and John Fardell was...

Picture by Gareth Easton PhotographyIt seems only yesterday we were at a star studded awards ceremony in Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre hearing the results of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011, but actually it was...

The three winners of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011 were announced at a prize giving ceremony in Edinburgh today.  600 children from across Scotland visited the Lyceum Theatre this afternoon to find out...

Local writer Nicola Morgan is one of 9 authors to be shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011, the Scottish Book Trust announced today.Nicola has had around 90 books published, including home learning...