'The book is very enjoyable, flowing with lovely rhymes and cleverly incorporated Scottish words.The unique Scottish focus broadens children's world view and allows them to draw inferences that a child, a family and a village are more similar than different, regardless of the word, the tool or the game.'Diane Neylon, Youth Services Book Review'Thistle Games captures the atmosphere of the Highland Games with humorous details, whilst introducing young readers to the Scottish vernacular.'--Agnes Guyon, SLA'"Thistle Games" is a fun little book for everyone who is interested in life in Scotland, Scottish culture and traditions, sports and learning new words.'--The Reading Castle BlogPraise for Thistle Sands:'My nine and six-year old loved Thistle Sands, a title pitched at younger children -- but the desire to learn the Scots for bottom is, apparently, ageless. That, while reading it aloud, they sounded like Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to do a Lossiemouth accent only added to the allure of the tale of seaside japes. The illustrations reminded me of Michael Rosen's We're Going on a Bear Hunt. More crucially, we all learnt the Scots for exhausted (wabbit), and cry (greet), key words for children, parents -- and politicians -- on each side of the Border.

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