While reading today I learned that it is Book Week in Scotland and it got me thinking about Scottish children's book authors and illustrators. On the blog this year I have done a post on Italian authors and illustrators and French, so why not Scottish.
Of course there's the well known Scottish children's authors that everyone knows such as Robert Louis Stevenson; Kenneth Grahame; J.M. Barrie; Alexander McCall Smith and J.K. Rowling but there are others who make wonderful picture books such as (off the top of my head):
I'm sure I've missed some. I looked up these to check I was correct and now that I have looked them all up, I know Lynne Richards was born in Canada, but she does live in Scotland now with her Scottish husband and children. If Lynne counts then so should Meilo So, who was born in Hong Kong but now lives in the Shetlands. Julia Donaldson used to live in Scotland but has moved back to England.
And of course there's lots of children's authors who write wonderful novels. Pamela Butchart and Alistair Chisholm could start this new list.
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