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Actor and comedian Elaine C Smith, known for her role as Rab C Nesbitt’s wife Mary Doll Nesbit, has written a Glaswegian version of Donaldson’s well-known opening to her children’s story, “A mouse took a stroll through a deep dark wood. We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.Her original favourite was the Gruffalo in Scots but her auntie soon recommended the Glasgow Gruffalo by Elaine C Smith. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Home > Children's > Young Children's and Early Learning > Picture Books > The Glasgow Gruffalo: The Gruffalo in Glaswegian The Glasgow Gruffalo: The Gruffalo in Glaswegian By (author) Julia Donaldson; Illustrated by Axel Scheffler; Translated by Elaine C. Photograph: PR Company Handout View image in fullscreen Glasgow ranger … The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, now available in Glaswegian. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.

The loch is surrounded by trees and even though you’re in the middle of Bearsden it feels a lot more remote.

My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. It would probably take 10 – 20 minutes to walk round the whole thing depending on whether you move at a reasonable pace or a saunter. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Gruffalo has sold more than 3m copies since it was first published in 1999.

A video of Jessica reading the Glasgow adaption of the children's book has been viewed by thousands on Facebook. The award-winning rhyming story of a mouse and a monster is a modern classic, and will enchant children for years to come. Everybody loves The Gruffalo and now you can enjoy this children's classic for the very first time in Glaswegian! The last time we were here this bit was in the process of getting fenced off, I assume for the safety of any wee ones who are playing in the ship or mud kitchen.

Smith and published by Itchy Coo, this new edition of The Gruffalo will delight both children and adults alike.

A publishing phenomenon with millions of copies sold, he has illustrated some of the bestselling and most-read children's books over the last twenty years. A tod saa that moosie an that moosie looked gaid”) and Shetlandic Scots (“Ida hert o a forest deep an dark, a perrie broon moose guid oot for a waak”). The wee gallus moose squares uptae an auld owl, a sleekit snake an a ginormous gruffalo in a new version of Julia Donaldson’s classic picture book The Gruffalo, now translated into Glaswegian.Everybody loves The Gruffalo's Child and now you can enjoy this children's classic for the very first time in Glaswegian! 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. There is quite a lot of detail in them too, so lots for tiny tots to explore (and labradors, apparently).