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Thistle Street (Picture Kelpies)
Mike Nicholson
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Description for Thistle Street (Picture Kelpies)
Paperback. A braw Scots story for bairns! Welcome to Thistle Street where you'll meet friendly folk and fun Scots words. Illustrator(s): Keay, Claire. Series: Picture Kelpies. Num Pages: 32 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AC; YBCS. Category: (JN) Preschool (0-5). Dimension: 265 x 230 x 3. Weight in Grams: 198.
A braw Scots story for bairns!
Welcome to Thistle Street, a bustling wee high street in a Scottish seaside town, where you'll meet lots of friendly folk and some fun Scots words. Join us for a DAUNDER down the street as people go through their day, trying to avoid a STRAMASH on the way to school, having a good BLETHER outside the bakers, and rushing indoors when the weather gets DREICH.
This funny story, told in bright rhyming verse, is full of the lively characters who work and live on the street, from a grumpy greengrocer and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Floris Books
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Picture Kelpies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
32
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780863159107
SKU
V9780863159107
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Mike Nicholson
Mike Nicholson is the author of children's novels Catscape and Grimm (both Floris Books). He won the Kelpies Prize for new Scottish children's fiction in 2005. Mike lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Thistle Street is his first picture book. Claire Keay is an artist and illustrator based in Essex in England. Claire has illustrated two previous children's books: I Love ... Read more
Reviews for Thistle Street (Picture Kelpies)
'Thistle Street' sells itself as a "braw Scots story for bairns". And so it is!... The book creates a warm sense of a bustling community with its friendly words and dynamic pictures.'
The Scotsman 'What's lovely about this is that the language introduces fantastic Scots words like stushie and clarty and crabbit ... the value of having a ... Read more
The Scotsman 'What's lovely about this is that the language introduces fantastic Scots words like stushie and clarty and crabbit ... the value of having a ... Read more