Every year as part of the Kelpies Prize, we look for the best unpublished children’s fiction with a Scottish twist. This year, the Kelpies Prize is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its launch and since February, our judges have been working their way through a mountain of entries to find our three finalists for...
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As some of you may have noticed, last Wednesday our social media pages looked a little different. The Floris Design and Production team, normally very busy making sure that our beautiful picture books and non-fiction guides make it to a bookshop near you, popped by on Twitter and Facebook to say hello. And we...
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As the days grow longer and sunshine warms our homes and gardens, it’s a wonderful reminder that summer has (hopefully!) arrived. Of course while most of us will enjoy relaxing in the garden and taking some hard-earned holiday days, spare a thought for the poor souls who herald the arrival of summer with runny...
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This month, Floris Books is pleased to publish Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter by Simon Robinson and Maria Moraes Robinson as part of our growing collection of books on alternative business and economics. But what exactly is Holonomics and how can it benefit us? Authors Simon Robinson and Maria Moraes Robinson have...
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Earlier in the year, the Floris office was treated to a very special visit from Brenda Tyler, author-illustrator of our beautiful Hilltop picture book series. Brenda popped in to work with our design team on illustrations for her new Hilltop book, The Tomtes of Hilltop Stream, and we were lucky enough to catch her...
Read more →We were sorry to learn of the recent death of bookshop manager and long-time Floris Books friend and supporter Wain Farrants. Wain studied psychology and mathematics at the University of Toronto and ran the bookshop at Camphill Botton Village in Yorkshire, England for many years until his death in January 2014. As well as...
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The clocks have turned forward, the daffodils are blooming, and spring is definitely in the air. Here at Floris, thoughts have turned to spring… and spring cleaning. Which is why new book Why Cleaning Has Meaning, by cleaning professional Linda Thomas, proved to be very popular when it arrived! Linda is a great believer...
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We are very excited to announce that Edinburgh-based illustrator Astrid Jaekel is the winner of the inaugural Kelpies Design & Illustration Prize! We made the announcement at an award ceremony last night at Edinburgh’s Gallery Seventeen, where we will also be showcasing the ten shortlisted entries this weekend. Astrid’s design for the cover of...
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If you’ve visited the Floris Twitter page recently, you might have seen that we’ve been talking about Conscious Parenting, an idea from our new parenting book Happy Child, Happy Home by Lou Harvey-Zahra. Lou has over 20 years’ experience in different kindergarten, primary, special needs and Steiner-Waldorf school settings, and Conscious Parenting is an...
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We are absolutely delighted to announce that Kelpies author Janis Mackay was named as one of the winners at the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2013 today, during a special ceremony at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library attended by 800 young people from all over Scotland. Janis won the Younger Readers (8-11 years) category with her Kelpies...
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