The Gruffalo in Scots

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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 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.Come a wee bit further intae the deep, mirk widd, and find oot whit happens when the sleekit moose comes face tae face wi a hoolet, a snake and a hungry gruffalo. Everybody loves The Gruffalo and now you can enjoy this children's classic for the very first time in Scots. 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. 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.

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In 2019 we marked the 20th anniversary of The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson with a very special Authors Live broadcast during Book Week Scotland. James Robertson reads his Scots translation of The Gruffalo, and Catriona Lexy Campbell brings the Gaelic translation, An Gruffalo, to life. 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. 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. These materials were used when Education Scotland and Into Film held Scots Language Through Film events in these areas.