Fiction: Children's

Following on the success of Winnie the Pooh in Scots, here comes the second volume of stories featuring Pooh, Wee Grumphie, Heehaw, Hoolet and all the other creatures of the Forest, and introducing the strippit bampot Teeger. The House at Pooh's Corner was first published in 1928 and is a classic of children's literature. This edition contains the original Ernest Shepard illustrations.

A world first from Itchy Coo, this is a brand new book for younger readers, telling the story of the girlhood adventures of Precious Ramotswe, founder of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, in simple and accessible Scots.

Simple Scots words in rhyming couplets guide the reader through the months of the year, and Katie is as cheery and inquisitive as ever. Her Granda and some of her animal pals from previous books also make an appearance, and there are some new friends too.

Karen Sutherland's bright, cheerful illustrations, and the accompanying rhymes in simple Scots language, will help children and adults alike identify a range of creepin, fleein, crowlin wee beasties.

To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Bard, Itchy Coo is proud to publish this lift-the-flap board book in the format of the hugely successful Katie series. There will be many publications in 2009 to mark Burns’s 250th birthday, but Rabbie’s Rhymes is unique in bringing the best-loved lines of the poet to the very youngest readers.

Fantastic Mr Fox has been transformed into The Sleekit Mr Tod, and he’ll require all his wily wits to escape the scunnersome Fermers Bodge, Bauchle and Beek while, at the same time, raiding their well-stocked stores for a full-scale banquet. But who will win?

Come on a safari of the imagination with this unique, beautifully presented collection of poems from all over the Commonwealth, from tiny islands of the Caribbean to the vast continents of Australia and India.

These endearing Scottish doggies, each humorously illustrated and accompanied by appropriate doggerel, are there for you to chew over at your leisure and they're bound to provide you with a kennel-ful of fun!