It’s a Midsummer’s day and Rose is walking wearily home – she hearts beautiful singing and follows the joyful sound deep into the trees. As she listens, a flurry of fairies burst out of a tiny door in the side of a hill, and one of the fairies invites Rose to join their party. Today, they’ll be inviting other children to join them too.

Tune in to accompany author and storyteller Janice Mackay as she takes the audience on a journey with Rose, through her new book The Fairy Song, inspired by traditional Scottish stories of fairy folk. All Rose wanted was fun, friendship and flowers – now’s her chance for her, and your little ones, to enjoy just that.

Tickets are FREE.

All events in The Scottish Books Long Weekend will be recorded and will be uploaded to the Publishing Scotland YouTube channel with closed captions on Tuesday 15 June.

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Janis Mackay is a prize-winning children’s author, storyteller and creative writing tutor. She writes picture books and middle-grade novels including The Selkie Girl, The Wee Seal and the Magnus Fin trilogy. Her novel The Accidental Time Traveller won a Scottish Children's Book Award and in 2019 was adapted into a musical by British Youth Theatre. Her new picture book, The Fairy Song, was created in collaboration with illustrator Ruchi Mhasane and will be published in June of 2021. Janis currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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This event is part of the Scottish Books Long Weekend 10 to 13 June. For the full programme, see BooksfromScotland.com/scottish-books-long-weekend/.

Books are available to buy from our bookshop partners Bookshop.org.