Writing for Children
Writing for Children
Writing for Children
Janet Paisley's stories, poems and plays for children are published alongside other writers in various anthologies suitable for a range of age groups.
- Scottish Plays for Schools includes English and Scots versions of Silver Bullet - a comic play about growing up, originally broadcast by BBC radio, for reading or performance with secondary S1 to S6.
- The Thing that Mattered Most - Scottish poems for children by Scottish poets.
- Gaberlunzie Joes's PURE GHOSTERS - short stories for weans S1 to S5.
- My Mum's a Punk - stories and poems by Scottish writers for 10-14yr olds.
- The Tartan Rainbow - stories in English for children age 9-12yrs
- A Hantle o Verse - poems in Scots for children.
- Anither Hantle o Verse - more poems in Scots.
- Shouting it Out - stories for teenagers from contemporary Scotland.
- Goldfish Suppers - poems for children and families.
- Other anthologies include The Kist schools resource, Twinkle, Twinkle Chocolate Bar rhymes for the very young, Count to Five and Say I'm Alive video and books pack, and Bright Ideas poetry activities from Scholastic.