Applications are open for #scotfriendlybooktour events as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. The events with Michelle Robinson and @JionSheibani are a great way to help young people understand their emotions and talk about them. Click below to find out more. 🗓 10-14 May

What a fun-packed week we’ve had talking about unicorns, rainbows, mindfulness and drawing! Thanks for being amazing @JionSheibani and Michelle Robinson 🦄 🌈 😃 ✍️ 📚 #scotfriendlybooktour #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

June is Pride month and we’re so excited to be working with award-winning author benjamin dean delivering fun, inspiring events for P5 - S1 pupils. Applications are open now 😃👍🏻🌈

#ArtsAliveScotland is a phenomenal new programme putting the expressive arts at the heart of your school activities with sessions and residencies from these powerhouses: Scottish Ballet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, National Theatre of Scotland, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Opera.

Loving this week’s school events with author Benjamin Dean (benjamin dean) for Pride Month! Ben’s also a celebrity journalist, so pupils at Hillside and Fetterangus Schools turned the tables and interviewed him! 🎥 📝 🌈

#ScotFriendlyBookTour’s summer competition launched today and the prizes are INCREDIBLE! If you want to make reading fun this summer check out the link below! 📚 ☀️ 🐉 🏰 Scottish Friendly @scottishbktrust Historic Scotland Cressida Cowell

When I finish subtitling… 😳 ⌨️

Ooh, another Knight Night bedtime story tomorrow at 6:50pm. This time with Alastair Chisholm reading The Prince and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears 📖 #ScotFriendlyBookTours #CastleFest

Calling all P4-S6 GAMERS! We’ve got an incredible line up for this month’s #ScotFriendlyBookTour. We’re looking at games in all its forms - from playground games, to video games and interactive game books. Applications are open now! 🎮🎲♟📚 📆 Events take place 24–28 January

Calling all Twitch fans! Applications are open for a brilliant LIVE virtual author event with M. G. Leonard and RSPB Scotland! #ScotFriendlyBookTour

We’re on the road next month with the #ScotFriendlyBookTour bringing the wonderful Cressida Cowell into schools 21-25 March. We also have in-person events at Stirling Castle and Mitchell Theatre. Applications are open now! 📚 🐲

Congrats to Julie Sutherland (Julie Sutherland) who won the 2022 Learning Professional Award. This wonderful video shows why school libraries and librarians are so vital. #ScottishBookTrustAwards

Apply now to bring multi-award-winning author Brian Conaghan to your school to see S1-6 pupils. Perfect for reluctant readers and budding writers. #scotfriendlybooktour

We’re at Vikingar! with @Louiestowell, author of the hilarious Loki book series, as part of Largs Viking Festival. Louie’s super-fun event is about new book, Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Taking the Blame. ⏰ 11:15am, 12:15am and 1:15pm today! ⚔️ 🛡 🛶 #scotfriendlybooktour

All books should have covers that come to life with Google Lens! 🤩

Here’s a chance to host multi-award-winning author, actress, playwright and screenwriter Manjeet Mann in your school in Jan 2023 for events about her books The Crossing and Run, Rebel. S2-6. Deadline Mon 6th Dec. Apply now! 📚

So excited for this #ScotFriendlyBookTour with @JosephACoelho, Children's Laureate. We’re visiting P1-4s on Orkney, Highlands and Lewis and Harris from 15-19 May. Applications are open now! ✍️ 📚

The #ScotFriendlyBookTour is coming to this year's Wee Write Festival in Glasgow, Sat 3 June, w the enormously talented Mark Bradley - No longer on X, find me on Bluesky We loved working w Mark on Authors Live & know this is going to be brilliant. Tickets: glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/scotti… @scottishbktrust Scottish Friendly

We’ve had a great tour seeing P1-4 pupils on Orkney and Highlands. Now we’re off to Lewis and Harris for the #scotfriendlybooktour to visit more schools with @JosephACoelho! @scottishbktrust Scottish Friendly

Had great fun drawing along with Benji Davies on #BBCAuthorsLive. We love The Storm Whale in our house 🐳 ❤️