James Robertson reads his Scots translation of The Gruffalo, and Catriona Lexy Campbell brings the Gaelic translation, An Gruffalo, to life.

As an extension activity, each week pupils can find and share a new Scots or Gaelic word with the class and the wall can be updated on a regular basis to celebrate these new words.We know time is tight, so here is just one activity you could do before or after watching this event. His novel The Testament of Gideon Mack was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2006 and featured on the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2007. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. We also hear from lots of pupils all around the country who share their favourite Scots and Gaelic words! Resources to accompany the Scots versions of Julia Donaldson’s classic children’s book The Gruffalo.

I love this book, purchased for myself so that my Scottish boyfriend could read it to me and I could swoon over his accent. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. For a range of activities you can use to introduce pupils to Scots, take a look at our learning resource on using Scots in the classroom (this link will open in a new window). Eleven exciting translations of these popular books are also available in different dialects of Scots including Doric, Dundonian, Shetland and Orcadian. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

In the event, James Robertson and Catriona Lexy Campbell share their favourite words in Scots and Gaelic and also explain why they like them. A publishing phenomenon with millions of copies sold, he has illustrated some of the bestselling and most-read children's books over the last twenty years. Itchy Coo is delighted to share that The Glasgow Gruffalo’s Wean has won the Scots Bairns Book o the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2021.

Translated by James Robertson and published by Itchy Coo, this new edition has been approved by Julia Donaldson and will delight both children and adults alike. Julia Donaldson, the 2011-2013 Children's Laureate, is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world's most-loved picture books including The Gruffalo and What the Ladybird Heard. For Itchy Coo his translations include Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom, Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox and A.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.