Five children's books from Scotland
- Janet Smyth
- 2 November 2012
A Scots Alphabet, The Bunk-Bed Bus, Granny Nothing, Skarrs and Boyracers
Selected by Janet Smyth, children and education programme director at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Animal ABC: A Scots Alphabet
Susan Rennie and Karen Sutherland (Itchy Coo, 2002)
Fantastic illustrations, and a very funny introduction to a menagerie of animals described in Scots.

The Bunk-Bed Bus
Frank Rodgers (Puffin, 2004)
I love the quirkiness of The Bunk-Bed Bus starring a clever granny who trumps her snooty Neighbour by entering said bus in an art competition.

Granny Nothing
Catherine MacPhail (Strident, 2012)
Granny Nothing is described as a ‘rhinoceros in a frock’ and she crashes into the lives of her grandchildren like a bull in a china shop.

Skarrs
Catherine Forde (Egmont 2008)
A touching novel of a boy who has fallen in with a neo-Nazi gang and is struggling to find a path out of his situation.

Boyracers
Alan Bissett (Polygon 2002)
Set in Falkirk, it describes a group of teenagers just teetering on the cusp of becoming adults.
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