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Novels & non-fiction | Study Abroad | Traveloguer | Rep @FraserRossLA

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

15 days

Well - this work-in-progress is the thing of author dreams! A wild, artist-designed installation in a children’s library. Thank you @Z_arts_mcr (esp Saskia!) for including me & my books in this year’s #FestivalOfLibraries #Manchester #CityOfLiterature & thanks artist Andy Fear 🤩

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1 month

2/2... if prisoners & kids asked the question, it was likely a good one. It cut to the heart of the matter, and she wasn't able to answer it. Instead, she ridiculed me, a marginal group, and children. She's got a debut kids book out soon. It'll be everywhere, but not on my shelf.

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Once, when I asked a Q at a famous writer's event, she responded by saying she was "often asked that - by prisoners and school children". There was general chortling. It was intended to put me down, and for years, whenever I thought of it, it did. But here's the thing... 1/2

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@MsPollyClark Yes - a few words forgotten for her, but humiliation and stingy flashbacks for me!

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@shorttyknows This might disclose who it was, and I’d rather not - although I do acknowledge they made their comment in public. I promise it was on topic, inoffensive, and genuinely something the book talk left me wondering 🕊️

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@themikehm Intrigue!

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@anthonysattin Yes, true. It was pre-pandemic.

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@LordWoolamaloo Was, needless to say, not one of your events - at which I have only ever witnessed loveliness :)

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@JamestownReads @MsPollyClark I’m sorry. It’s the flippancy of the authors in these scenarios that also reverberates, I think.

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

#BookGiveaway ! Please shout 📣 📣 about #TigerSkinRug ! First 3 names out my bday party hat on Friday will get a copy 🐯🥳 #BookBoost #booklovers #kidsbooks #kidslit #mglit #mglitchat #WednesdayVibes #WednesdayMotivation #WritingLife

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@scraphamster I know 🙁 And the question wasn’t off topic or rude or anything! Ah, well!

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2 months

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4 years

😭🥳😭 Thank you, anonymous nominating person - thank you so, so much. Thanks @CILIPCKG and tiny-but-mighty indie island publisher @cranachanbooks and to illustrator #MarianBrown & everyone who’s lifted Tiger Skin Rug off the shelf. The list is dazzling: I am proud to be on it.

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4 years

*AMAZING NEWS* The wonderful @joanhaigbooks and her totally enchanting debut novel #TigerSkinRug have been nominated for the @cilipckg Cilip Carnegie Medal 2021 – it doesn't get any bigger than this in the world of children's books! HUGE congratulations & hugs to Joan! #CKG21 😍

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

*BOOK GIVEAWAY* To celebrate Tiger Skin Rug turning ONE this Saturday 🐯🧁 🥰 I’m gifting 2 signed copies (1st to a name plucked out my party hat on Sat and 2nd to that person’s local children’s hospital/ward). To win, simply RT/like! 🧡 #booksforhospitals #bookgiveaway #BookBoost

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

A new year! I'd love to branch out/find new followers! Please help me grow my Twitter tree... 🌳I'm a children's author, tweet about kids' books, tiny letters, nature, tigers and have a soft spot for cats & indie bookshops 📚 Thanks! #Kidslit #MGLit #WritingCommunity #WriteMentor

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

1/3 To celebrate #TigerSkinRug being out a whole year in the US & winning a @ForewordReviews Award I’m doing a #Giveaway of one of the @EuropaEditions hardcover copies! PLUS a bookmark, eco notebook and silk gift bag - perfect for a festive gift 🐯🎁🧡

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

7 months

Today I went back to my old school for the first time in 27 years… as an author 🥹So special - and my biggest audience yet (the whole Junior School!). Thanks for everything #DollarAcademy ! #grateful #memories #authorvisit #mglit #kidlit #KidLitScot

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

Ah, the Hebrides! This chain of islands is home to tiny-but-mighty @cranachanbooks . Small and indie publishers are *vital* in the world of books. Please support them! #SmallIsBeautiful #SmallPressOfTheYear #booksellers 🐾PS - Thanks to @auntyemily for letting me #catsit 😊

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3 years

Five year remission 🌸🦋 #Cancer

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

It’s been ONE roaring, rollercoaster year since my tiger flew onto bookshelves. Thank you to EVERYONE who has championed it and cheered for it along the way 🧡🐯 This is a self-indulgent thread, but I’m bursting with gratitude, so here goes...

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

After @WomensWeeklyMag article by @_KateChapman talked about my #ThyroidCancer diagnosis, the @britishthyroid association got touch. They’d supported me during my #cancer diagnosis & treatment & now I’m honoured to be supporting their work🐯 #NeverGiveUp #NHS Thank you, Kate 🥰

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

My husband popped into @BlackwellEdin on his first trip back into town and he’s just sent me a pic of #TigerSkinRug on their kids’ shelf and it’s even facing out! 🥳🐯 #dreamcometrue #debutnovel #ChildrensBooks #bookshop #buylocal @cranachanbooks @books_north

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Don’t worry if you didn’t make the @writementor novel award LL. Do think over the feedback - it’s rare to get this from a competition. I did and my book just came out! #writingcommunity #keepgoing

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

#Giveaway ! "a captivating and enchanting book - so beautifully written... superb characterisation" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Toppsa Review Enter by FRIDAY to win a copy #TigerSkinRug AND organic tote bag supporting @Save_WildTigers 🐯RT 🐾Follow/be following me 🐯Guaranteed UK Xmas delivery

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

It's official! TIGER SKIN RUG is out in Taiwan & Hong Kong in time to celebrate the Year of the Tiger! (And the publisher said it will sit nicely with their translations of #KatherineRundell 😊) #ChineseNewYear #YearOfTheTiger Thanks to #HelenBinns @cranachanbooks #HsiaoLu

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

What a kind & wonderful human bean. Perfect end to my day at the @edbookfest - got to talk history, illustrations, tiger skin rugs, bunnies on buses & Beancat’s nine lives with @PhilipArdagh 🙂

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

Spoooooky! Bumped into the gorgeous @ljlittleson when we were both reading on the same wee beach while the mist set in 💙 Please excuse our wind-swept hair. Also, please buy our books 🤭🤗😉

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

This time two years ago my debut had just come out, I was new and completely green in the children's book industry. I've learnt SO MUCH and met bunches of brilliant folk. A huge thank you to all those who've rooted for me/my books💛Two more coming in 2023 ☺️

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

Pinch, pinch, pinch.

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2 years

Shiny happy people having fun 🤩 @Louiestowell @HGold_author #Nibbies

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

STAY AT HOME! was published last year to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to all children going through lockdown - for their sacrifices, soapsuds & rainbows. 🌈Join contributors *this Thurs* as we read aloud from the collection at the @BigDoG_Fest (it's free!)📚

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

11 months

Can’t quite believe I get to say this, but… ✨Tiger Skin Rug is out in CHINA! ✨ Thanks so much to @cranachanbooks #HelenBinns and the translation team 🤩🥰 #crosscultural #tigerconservation #scottishbooksforeveryone #kidslit #mglit #translation #foreignrights

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11 months

So excited to share the the mainland China edition of the magical adventure #TigerSkinRug from the wonderful @joanhaigbooks —huge congratulations, Joan. 🥳👏📚

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

Um... my debut is a FINALIST in the #INDIES ! @EuropaEditions @cranachanbooks Buckets and barrels of thanks to @ForewordReviews 🥰🐯🕊️ Tiger Skin Rug: 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist #finalist #juvenilefiction |

"Tiger Skin Rug" is a 2021 Foreword INDIES Winner

"Tiger Skin Rug" is a Foreword INDIES winner in Juvenile Fiction (Children's). In Joan Haig’s urban fantasy for young readers, three children help a creature fulfill a promise made long ago. Lal...

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

My boy has landed! This was his first solo rtn flight, visiting his Zambian dad, sisters, Ma, aunty, cousins… I’m so proud of him but mostly I’m popping hopping giddy to see him😊 #youngtraveller #Heathrow

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

I am *proud as a peacock* that #TigerSkinRug @cranachanbooks has been made more accessible through the @RNIBBookshare . #VisualImpairment #Dyslexia #Dyspraxia #Autism #ADHD #SEND Image credit: @JackieMorrisArt from Lord of the Forest @LineyNell 🧡💙

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

Latest #tinyletters from my dad to my boys. They adore his droll miniature handwriting, keen interest in their lives, wit & mischief, codes, riddles & puzzles - and perfectly selected clippings from @PrivateEyeNews . He draws the stamp - usually royals with big noses. #bestgrandad

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

(1/2) To celebrate #TigerSkinRug publishing in the US this Nov*, I’m offering a free class visit in Scotland in #BookWeekScotland . Inc: 1x 30min visit, class set bookmarks, tiger colouring-in sheets by Marian Brown (🙏 @Literacy_Trust ) *ages off, but time flies like a tiger!✨

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

My WIP is inspired by Vanuatu, the archipelago in the SW Pacific where I spent many of my tween and teen years. Here's a fun fact: Vanuatu has the world's only undersea post office and only postbox on top of a volcano! 🌊🌋📮 #amwriting #mglit #kidslit

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3 years

Today was my aunt’s funeral. There were fierce & gentle readings, a gorgeous piano recording from my dad - he couldn’t be there - and a dreamy blue sky. We couldn’t sing or hug, but we cried & laughed and it was perfect. Also, wasn’t she beautiful? #Family #COVID19 #StaySafe

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

🐯📣Tiger Skin Rug is an INDIES Award Winner! Heartfelt thanks to @ForewordReviews judges & organisers and to #teamtiger on both sides of the Atlantic✨🧡 #SilverAward #ForewordINDIES #HelenBinns @EuropaEditions @cranachanbooks #independentpublisher #cakefordinner

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Foreword Reviews

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2 years

Announcing the 2021 Foreword INDIES Winners, recognizing the best books published in 2021 from small, independent, and university presses, as well as author publishers. Congratulations! #INDIES #bookawards #winners #indiepublishing

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

So special that #TalkingHistory has been longlisted for the #UKLA book awards. Not least because the inspiration for the book was my teacher! 🎉 #grateful #teachersbookawards #UKLA23

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We are THRILLED to announce the extraordinary longlists for the 2023 #UKLA #UKLA23 #teachersbookawards

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Hands up if you are an #childrensauthor with a #smallpublisher #indepedentpublisher #indiepublisher and might like to join forces to shout about it?... Or if you are in the #childrensbook world and want to support small/indie publishers?...

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Happy International Book Giving Day! I’m giving away a signed copy of #TigerSkinRug to the first name picked out my pink woolly hat at the stroke of 11pm - magic hour in my story. Please RT and #followme to be in the hat! #bookgivingday #giveabook #FridayFeeling #kidslit

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2 years

Still tickled crimson that Tiger Skin Rug made it to The Wall Street Journal @WSJ ’s weekly children’s book review feature 🙃😊🐯✨🧡

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2 years

LOOK @joanhaigbooks your magical #TigerSkinRug is reviewed in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL! 🤯📚🐯 'With its sensitivity, sincerity and touches of humor, Tiger Skin Rug is an excellent option for both independent readers and family read alouds.' 🥰

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

@emrandallwrites Yes. Quiet happiness with my family of humans & cats. Heavy, complicated happiness swimming in cold Scottish water or facing hot African wind. Mindless, weightless happiness dancing in rain with my two boys. Thanks for making me pause to think about it - it’s made me happy! 🤗

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4 years

I'm writing my next children's novel. It's set in Zambia, where my bones grow out the ground. They're aching with homesickness today. To help, I walked in the blustery Scottish hills. I love Scotland, but today it feels like a lovely auntie hugging me when what I need is my mum.

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

I am breaking my rule of “Never Put Pictures of My Kids Online” to show my little weeks-old bug creature (now a teen) reading his first book. Watching his eyes track and focus was *magic*. Humans are never too small - or “too” ANYTHING - for books! #BooksAreForEveryone

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3 years

@Mrspaulinebird @Falkirk_LRS @moontrug @sophieinspace @strangelymagic @WelshDragonParr Thanks! 🥰 I love (actually, would give my Lotto winnings - all £10 of them - for Childhood Me to have Fanta with any of the characters by - and Now Me to have tea with) @alandmcclure , @NizRite @EmilyrIlett , @ZillahBethell , @RobinScottEllio , @HSNorup @JenniSpangler1 @yaba_badoe

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Goodness, what a thrill live Radio is 😅 Thank you @Nicola_Meighan @BBCRadioScot for having me on #OutForTheWeekend ! #TigerSkinRug #readingonradio #spreadthelove #BookGivingDay

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Two little chimneysweeps! Victorian selfie for the launch of #TheVanishingTrick by @JenniSpangler1 and illustrated by @chrismouldink (A treacherous and filthy photo shoot - Andrew and Adrian loved it!)

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

Scottish indie publisher @cranachanbooks featuring at the @edbookfest and copies of Tiger Skin Rug are in the shop! Can’t wait to visit - thanks for the pic @scattyscribbler (& congrats on your #Chessmen event!) 🥰🤩📚

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

I've just emptied my piggy bank and there were enough pennies - and some vatu and corny old ngwee - to join @scbwi @SCBWI_BI (with encouragement from @SpareWriter ). I'm a bit shy but here goes... members of @SCBWIScotland , can I please sit with you? #NewGirl #SCBWI #FFBack

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

When you look for a colourful & diverse book on speeches for your kids and can't find one that does the job... Can't wait to share #TalkingHistory with children everywhere! #out2021 #JoanLennon #DrJoans #watchthisspace @FraserRossLA @templarbooks @bonnierbooks_uk @abducci

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

Oh, you’re writing a story about cats? Well, let me help by sitting on your manuscript and demanding all your attention 😼 #amwriting #CatsOfTwitter

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

1 year

Another winning event from ⁦ @EdinBookshop ⁩! Launch evening for the dark and dangerous debut of ⁦ @Eviewriter ⁩ 🎉 - congratulations Yvonne! (Pictured here with ⁦ @brudeluwrites ⁩ 💜) #DeloresMackenzie #NathanCollins ⁦ @FireflyPress ⁩

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10 months

Squeak! 💯thanks to @FraserRossLA @LindseyFraser @sharksinthesink @CBlakeyo #Andr éDucci #JoanLennon #TeamTemplar - we did it! 🎉

@templarbooks

Templar Books

10 months

Feeling inspired to expand your mind? 🧠 Look no further than #GreatMinds ! This book covers the unique ideas of 20 brilliant thinkers from the last 3000 years, presented in graphic novel style. 🤓 Follow the link to get your hands on a copy📚:

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4 years

My tiger is out in the wild! 🌿🐅🧡

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4 years

It's today! Happy, happy book birthday to @joan_md_haig and her magical debut Tiger Skin Rug! This book reads like an instant classic - we can't wait to hear what you think! Perfect for 8-12s! #kidslit #newbook #Scotland #India #London #flying #mystery #friendship #home #family

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2 years

What smiles! Grabbed these two wonders for a @edbookfest snap 🤩🤩 @sarahpbroadley @flyingscribbler #festivalfever #friendsthroughbooks

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

😊 My first In-Real-Life book festival - hitting my pillow with a smile 😊 @edbookfest #TalkingHistory #JoanLennon

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Every so often, my dad sends two small envelopes - with a letter, puzzle, and cartoon clippings inside each - for my two boys. It fills the whole house with joy for days 🥰🧡💚 #littleletters #handwrittenletters #bestgrandad #SmallIsBeautiful #smallthings

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

A happy morning! Book signings in Union Square NYC with my trusty book mascot 🐯 Met the marvellous @reynoldsmichael & team @EuropaEditions , collected my @ForewordReviews award, and chatted with bubbly bookseller Emily @BNUnionSqNYC 🙃 Thanks and book love all round 🧡

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2 years

I will never ever ever never take for granted my book being on a bookshop shelf. Thanks @argonaut_books for stocking it - and for the latte! And thanks @LindseyFraser for jollying me along! #indiebookshops #buylocal #booksaremybag #bestagent #magicaladventures #magicalrealism

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

⚠️ show off tweet Look who I got to hang out with! @TolaOkogwu @KateLeiper @JonathanMeres @akwindram @paulabookfest 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 What an energetic, jolly, kind, supportive book festival & bunch of folk. Thanks @BordersBookFest 🧡 I loved sharing the magic of tigers 🐯✨

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Three months today since UK #lockdown began. Help children reflect back on their experiences, efforts and emotions in this anthology of 40 offerings from writers in Scotland 💙 @cranachanbooks @scottishbooks #childrensbooksnorth #scottishbooktrust

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Stay At Home! Poems and Prose for Children in Lockdown - Books from Scotland

'This book is about lockdown - the good bits, the bad bits, and the ugly bits when nobody could get any toilet roll.'

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

Just out of a dream event! 🐯 #HsiaoLu book club (with 120 taking part) and my first event with an interpreter. 🐯Thanks to everybody who made this possible 🥰 #Taiwan #TaiwaneseReaders #ScottishBooksForEveryone #TigerSkinRug #YearOfTheTiger 🧡

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

5 years

Stoked! My middle-grade novel was selected as a Reader’s Favourite in #WriteMentor ’s latest competition 🐯🎉📚 Thanks to all readers for your kind & constructive comments 😊

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

My child is extremely against waste culture. Either that or he’s a thrifty young Scotsman. #Children #climateaction #FridaysForFuture

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

Two years ago today, @CGrahameMSP logged a motion in the @ScotParl officially welcoming this gorgeous collection by 40 writers & lovely illustrator @DarrenGate and thanking children for their efforts in the pandemic. We mustn’t ever forget what young people did to help 🌈🫧💙

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

It’s been a fun fortnight! Can’t wait to share this anthology of #lockdown literature with children everywhere 🥰 #kidslit #LockdownLit #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #StayHome @PublishScotland @books_north @scottishbktrust @edcentrallib @ScottishLibrari

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Cranachan Publishing

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4 years

*NEWS FLASH* On 28th May, we are publishing 'Stay at Home! Poems and Prose for Children in Lockdown' a collection of 40 contributions by writers based in Scotland. Illustrated by Darren Gate & edited by @joanhaigbooks , the book is about lockdown – the good, the bad & the ugly! :D

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

My lovely little Mandalorian 🖤❤️🧡💙 He’s even writing #fanfic #StarWars #AmWriting #ThisIsTheWay

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Does a child you know need to work through their thoughts and feelings on #Covid_19 and #Lockdown experiences? #StayAtHome is bursting with funny, touching and diverse poems and pieces of prose from 40 kids’ writers in Scotland. #scottishbooksforeveryone

Free ‘Stay at Home!’ book for children living in lockdown in Scotland by 40 children’s authors

Island-based publisher Cranachan has launched a free, illustrated anthology of poems and stories for children aged 8-12. Stay at Home! Poems and Prose for Children in Lockdown is a collection of 40…

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

5 years

Thank you @anneglennie ! So excited to be working with @cranachanbooks on my debut novel, Tiger Skin Rug. Still can't get my feet to stay on the ground... Please RT and follow me! 🐯☺️

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Cranachan Publishing

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5 years

We are delighted to welcome the lovely @joan_md_haig to the #clancranachan 🎉 Find out more about Joan & her rather wonderful debut #mglit novel publishing in 2020 here on our website 😊: #authorsigning #excitingnews #scottishkidslit #kidslit

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

Just been sent me this pic taken in Barnes and Noble 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 Thank you for letting my tiger prowl about your bookshop @BNPrinceton ! 🧡🐯✨

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

It never gets old, it never gets old, it never gets old! #DreamComeTrue #BookInTheWild #OnTheTable #ChildrensBooksNorth #kidslit #FridayFeeling @Waterstones @cranachanbooks Please vote for #TigerSkinRug in the @PeoplesBkPrize and share the link - every vote counts 🥰✨🤞🐯

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Delayed (sur)realisation on my hillwalk today. TIGER SKIN RUG, out with tiny island indie @cranachanbooks has been nominated for #CKG21 @CILIPCKG & the @sparkbookaward & is a winter finalist @PeoplesBkPrize . My brain's too small to count how much this means to me 🤯Just to say...

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Magic is when someone as lovely and joy giving as @JenniSpangler1 writes the creepiest villain since Long John Silver. Her work reminds me of RLS and #DianaWynneJones . Not that it's anything like them but because as a reader, I felt in utterly safe hands. AND... @chrismouldink 😍

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

I am SO jolly-well lucky to have had live bookshop launches the month before Lockdown. But here my boys - most prized critics & cheerleaders - show that even dedicated groupies can get #BookLaunch fatigue 😶🤣 (Their mum didn’t want her evening at @Waterstones to ever end ❤️)

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Wowee! Tiger Skin Rug is facing out with @MichaelMorpugo @OnjaliRauf @LaraWilliamson @sharnajackson @emmarea8 and other children’s favourites on these packed shelves. What an honour - thank you @2ndtimeMama 🥰🐾🐯📚 @cranachanbooks

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PumpkinsandPost-Its

4 years

My favourite place in my new classroom:-) Top shelf empty ready for new releases which are on route.

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

On this day, 80 years ago. My Aunt Lilian - my writing inspiration - was aged 10 and had a column in the children’s corner of @TheScotsman . She wrote until 1945 - mostly on nature and updates on the war raging between Fairyland and Goblinland. #NaturesPalaces #Nature #Spring

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

1 year

A #WorldBookDay treat - stories, writing & cake eating with @brudeluwrites 📚✍️🍰 @mainstreethare

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

ONE YEAR ago today a marvellous & giving bunch of writers up & down Scotland (from Shetland to the Solway Firth) & illustrator @DarrenGate contributed to a collection of short pieces for children *everywhere* living in #lockdown ... thread...👇

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

1 year

Wow. The @BordersBookFest is THE book festival of dreams.✨💫☀️ What a delight to be part of the 20th Anniversary programme 🐯☀️ (And behold the beautiful festival programme design by @jillcalder 🤩)

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

Pip the ginger tabby and Flotsam the petite moggy are the BEST writing companions & catnap coaches a lass could ask for 🐾 And let’s not forget Ziggy the NYC panther when we’re talking cool cats 🐾 #WorldAnimalDay2022 #WorldAnimalDay #CatsOfTwitter @sophie_kay_

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

Talk about a good looking couple. (No, not @JenniSpangler1 and @chrismouldink , though they’re gorgeous, too, obvs.) But take a look at these book beauties 😍😍🤩🤩 High excitement on arriving home from school run to #TheIncredibleTalkingMachine - thanks @simonkids_UK ❤️💙

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Catching up with the Agents Panel at #wowcon 2020 @writementor . Lovely @flohumphrey3 chairing a fascinating discussion. Thank you everyone 🥰

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

Oh, good, those woke-me-up-in-the-night thoughts last night were really groundbreaking 😳😴

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

We lost this little lovely bundle 3 years ago and my heart is still sore. Apart from his beautiful personality, he had the finest whiskers in all the lands.

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

Woohoo! #TalkingHistory is in ths January 2022 #PrimarySchoolBookClub comp! PLEASE head across to @PrimarySchoolBC and cast a vote for us! This book means so much to me - it's a fresh take on historical voices that we all need to hear 📣 AND it's a VISUAL WONDER from André Ducci!

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 months

#Teachers ! The good people at @templarbooks have designed bright, booky postcards to celebrate non-fiction. 📮If you’d like me to send one to your class, please get in touch! Please share! #nonfictionforkids #illustratednonfiction #GreatMinds #TalkingHistory #Postcards

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 months

I got my certificate! Thank you so much to the Edinburgh Center & Academic Affairs team, and of course to the wonderful students I get to work alongside! @ArcadiaScotland @ArcadiaAbroad @arcadia1853 #LearnEverywhere #ThinkGlobal

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

I first heard ‘I Have a Dream’ #MartinLutherKingJr when I was 13yo. I searched for a book on speeches for my own now 13yo son - but what I looking for wasn’t there. So I wrote it myself with sharp-witted #JoanLennon . It’s out THIS THURSDAY! #TalkingHistory #MartinLutherKingDay

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Tiger Skin Rug’s been nominated for the @PeoplesBkPrize 😀🙃🐯 Please please please please please please vote for my adventure, set in Scotland, England and India. Please spread the word & share the link 🙈🙏🤞🙀

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

1 year

Look! A summer picnic for #kidslit creatives in Scotland! Get out your tartan blankets! 🧺🐿️🍓🍰 @scottishbktrust @books_north @EmilyrIlett @onie_tibbitt @sarahpbroadley @MyBookCorner @alandmcclure @MoatBrae

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Caroline Logan

@CaroLoganBooks

1 year

We got a bit inspired by the London event, so I present to you: the Scottish Children's Publishing Picnic in Prince's Street Gardens. It'll be a low key get-together for everyone involved in Children's and YA publishing. Meet us in the park on Saturday 1st July and byo food.

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

3 years

The #CKG21 longlist has been announced! 🥳 My tiger & I are on a different boat, but congrats to the peeps who caught this one - a wonderful achievement.

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Cranachan Publishing

@cranachanbooks

3 years

Our magical tiger🐯didn't make the #CKG21 longlist but we're super proud of @joanhaigbooks ! It's quite an achievement to have your debut nominated for this most prestigious award, especially when you're working with a tiny publisher. Warmest congrats to all on the longlists!🍾

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

2 years

Hope you’re having a buzzing Gala Day to round off the @edbookfest @rachelkfox_ & team! Just spotted our excellent colour coding - we match #TalkingHistory AND the backdrop @CathyRitaJones ☺️

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

5 months

I heard some lovely book news recently. A story I love, written by a ray of sunlight in the world, is going to be magicked into a book next year. Children don’t know it yet, but there is treasure ahead! 💛

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Dr Joan Haig🐯

4 years

How do Primary School teachers do it? All I did was visit and I was at home in pyjamas with hot chocolate at 4:30. #teachersarelegends #PrimarySchoolBookClub #primaryschool #WorldBookDayUK

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