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Lifesize Deadly Animals: A Sensory Story

Posted on 16 August 202316 August 2023
  • All Levels
  • Festival
  • LD Friendly
  • Picture books
  • Sensory Stories

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: A Sensory Story

Posted on 9 August 2023
  • All Levels
  • Festival
  • Picture books
  • Sensory Stories

The Kippford Mermaid: A Multi-Sensory Story created by The Arts End of Somewhere

Posted on 22 August 202123 August 2021
  • All Levels
  • Celebrating Difference
  • LD Friendly
  • Sensory Stories
  • Storytelling

Citizen Winter Warmer – free online creative activities for everyone!

Posted on 2 December 20202 December 2020
  • 1st level
  • 2nd level
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • All Levels
  • Christmas
  • Creative writing
  • Picture books
  • Teachers

Top Picks for Schools: Tongue Fu, Nature Poetry and Crime Novels

Posted on 3 June 20193 June 2019
Improvise with words in preparation for some Edinburgh International Book Festival highlights.
  • All Levels
  • Authors
  • Creative writing
  • Poetry
  • Spoken Word

Looking for Someone Like Me: Representation in Picture Books

Posted on 12 March 201913 March 2019
Think about how learning disabilities and other types of disability are represented in picture books
  • All Levels
  • Picture books

Guest Review: Helen Pankhurst & Fern Riddell at the Book Festival

Posted on 19 September 201819 September 2018
Competition winner Katrina Lambert shares her thoughts on one of the events in the 2018 Book Festival's 'Revolting Women' strand
  • All Levels
  • Authors
  • Feminism
  • Festival

Win! Ed Vere Competition

Posted on 19 August 201819 August 2018
Your school could win a giant lion collage, created by author-illustrator Ed Vere at the 2018 Book Festival
  • All Levels
  • Festival
  • Win!

Year of Young People – Meet our Young Programmers

Posted on 3 August 20183 August 2018
Hear from our Young Programmers ahead of their Codename F events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
  • All Levels
  • Festival

Around the World in Books

Posted on 10 May 201816 November 2018
An international reading list from the Edinburgh International Book Festival Baillie Gifford Schools Programme 2018
  • All Levels
  • Reading
  • Reading list

Planning the Perfect Book Festival Event

Posted on 19 March 201826 November 2018
Design your own exciting author event for this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival
  • All Levels
  • Authors
  • Festival

ReimagiNation: Glenrothes Schools Programme (17 – 18 May)

Posted on 21 February 201821 February 2018
Fantastic free events for schools at the Rothes Halls, Glenrothes
  • All Levels
  • Authors
  • Festival
  • Fife

Accessing Online Resources: Teacher Feedback Session

Posted on 30 November 2017
Join the conversation that we started with education professionals at a valuable feedback event
  • All Levels
  • Teachers

Schools Christmas Competition

Posted on 27 November 201727 November 2017
Show us how you're using our learning resources and win a book bundle for your school
  • All Levels
  • Win!

Short Story Competition – Message from the Skies

Posted on 6 November 2017
See your words lighting up the dark nights through epic projections across Scotland’s capital
  • All Levels
  • Creative writing
  • Edinburgh
  • Win!

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