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Happy National Writing Day! ✏️ This is a song I wrote called The Waters Meet. Recorded by Fergus Dingle and Oskar Luiz Bonn as part of Making Tracks 2021. #scotslanguage

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I’ll be appearing on Scotland Tonight on STV to discuss the Scots Language Act and my hopes for the continued revitalisation of the language. Tune in from 22:30! ❤️ #scotslanguage

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🥳PUBLISHED TODAY🎉

The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature
ed. Maureen A. Farrell & Robert A. Davis

Examining Scottish writing for children in English, Gaelic & Scots – from classics by Stevenson & Barrie to the latest works by contemporary writers, & from picturebooks to Young Adult (YA) fiction

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic9/

#Scottish #literature #childrensLiterature #kidlit #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage

Contents (continued)

12. Scottish Poetry in the Scottish Secondary Classroom: Seeing Beyond the Set Texts (Jennifer Farrar)
13. Scottish Children’s Literature: Where Are We Now? (Maureen A. Farrell)

Endnotes
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index

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Contents

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction (Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis)

1. The Origins of Scottish Children’s Literature (Maureen A. Farrell)
2. ‘Through the Midnight Sea’: Some Dimensions of Scottish Children’s Poetry (Robert A. Davis)
3. Children’s Scottish Historical Fiction (Beth Dickson)
4. A ‘Spell of Stories’: Scottish Children’s Fantasy (Sarah Dunnigan)
5. Gaelic Plays for Children 1900–1950 (Sìm Innes)
6. Stevenson’s Junior Fiction (David Robb)
7. Mollie Hunter’s Teen Fiction: Transitioning through Enchanted Humanness to Adulthood (Ralph Jessop)
8. Adolescent Citizenship in Cathy MacPhail’s Mosi’s War and Claire McFall’s Bombmaker (Fiona McCulloch)
9. From Fairy Cauldrons to An Gruffalo: The Development and Challenges of Scottish Gaelic Children’s Literature (Mairi Kidd)
10. Scottish Children’s Picturebooks Within a European and Global Context (Penni Cotton)
11. Ambition and Identity: Scottish Children’s Literary Prizewinners (Morna Fleming)

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Book cover: The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature
Edited by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis

Image: against a blue sky, a paper sculpture made from printed book pages of a sailing ship, a one-legged pirate, a palm tree and a treasure chest

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