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Scottish Book Trust

Scottish Book Trust Website

This is a great interactive site for anyone interested in books for young people of all ages and you can access it through Facebook!

It introduces a digital resource of first-class online content featuring the world’s best children's authors, focussing on live and exclusive web-broadcast events.

These authors range from the award winning Julia Donaldson’s ‘The Gruffalo’ for babies and children of all ages…

… to Cathy Forde’s ‘Fifteen Minute Bob’ the music novel for today's iPod generation.

If you’re interested in writing reviews, entering competitions, writing your own stories …anything in fact, to do with books – this is the place for YOU!

Booked!: Children's Festival

Photographs of the Children's Festival

Click here to see photographs of the Children's Festival.

Designed by Alasdair Gray
Reading Challenge - Space Hop!
Make the summer start with a ‘blast off’ by joining the free cosmic Summer Reading Challenge - Space Hop!


This summer, take a giant leap into the final frontier - at your local library. Join Space Hop, and we'll help get you zooming through books as you rocket into space with the young crew of the Ex Libris!

Every year, thousands of children all over the country are involved in the biggest reading event for children in libraries in the UK, the Summer Reading Challenge. For 2010, the Challenge is called Space Hop.

The aim of the challenge is to read six books from the library during the summer holidays.

If you sign up you’ll get a membership card, fold out poster and stickers collected along the way as you read six books. There’s also lots of incentives such as glow-in-the-dark wristbands and spinning mobiles, cosmic rainbow pencils, cool bookmarks and magnets. A medal and certificate is up for grabs to those who successfully finish the challenge.

Can you resist our summer space adventure?

To join our inter-galactic space mission, sign up at your local library at the start of the summer holidays.

Don’t forget it’s totally FREE to take part!
Sir Jackie Stewart
Sir Jackie Stewart opens the new Children's Section in Dumbarton Library



On the 3rd March 2010, Sir Jackie Stewart returned to Dumbarton to open the library's new Children's Section. Click on the link below to see a slideshow of this spectacular event.

Slideshow of Sir Jackie Stewart in Dumbarton Library
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Harris the Hare
P1 of St Michael's Primary School went to Dumbarton Library recently to see the launch of the new 'Harris the Hare' Library Cards.


Councillor May Smillie (Spokesperson for Educational Services) spoke to the children who were then entertained by the Young People's Library Services Team reading the stories of Catherine Rayner, who generously donated the design of the new Library Card. Catherine was the winner of the 2009 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal.

Click here to see a slideshow of the 'Harris the Hare' Event.
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