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Playing with Celtic Tales
Posted on 04/12/25 in Guest posts, Lari Don
Guest Post by Lari Don I love sharing traditional tales: folktales, myths, fairy tales. But I also love playing with traditional tales. I find them sa …
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Celtic Tales – what does that mean?
Posted on 07/10/25 in Guest posts, Lari Don
Guest Post by Lari Don I love traditional tales about magic, shapeshifters, fairies and monsters (and clever ways to defeat monsters), and I love rese …
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Celtic Tales on the Map
Posted on 07/10/25 in Books, Folk and Fairy Tales, Fun Stuff, Lari Don
Journey with us to the Celtic lands – Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany – to discover classic stories of myth, magic an …
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Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales: Poster Download
Posted on 23/09/25 in Books, Folk and Fairy Tales, Lari Don, Posters
Shapeshifting selkies, cunning fairies, duelling dragons and bloodthirsty giants: discover stories of myth, magic and mischief retold for children by …
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Discover our Spooky Reads!
Posted on 29/10/21 in Books, Folk and Fairy Tales, Fun Stuff, Lari Don
Do you like scary stories? We do! (Well, nothing TOO scary…) This selection of some of our favourite spooky reads features witches and monsters, gho …
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Find Your Local Unicorn
Posted on 27/03/20 in Books, Fun Stuff, Lari Don
Once upon a time in the kingdom of Scotland, a young prince lost his smile. No one could help Prince Donald find his smile until his friend Hana, the …
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Guest Post: Searching for Unicorns by Lari Don
Posted on 13/02/20 in Guest posts, Lari Don
Have you ever been surprised by a unicorn? In today’s guest blog, Lari Don explains why Scotland has so many of these mythical creatures… Surprised …
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Announcing the winners of the Map My Monster Competition…
Posted on 22/07/18 in Fun Stuff, Lari Don
To celebrate the publication of Lari Don’s latest terrific traditional tale, The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster, Kelpies HQ have run our Map My Mon …
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What are your local monsters?
Posted on 07/05/18 in Authors, Lari Don
Today on the Discover Kelpies blog we’re delighted to be hosting Lari Don as she makes her first big splash on The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster b …
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The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster: Cover Reveal!
Posted on 30/11/17 in Folk and Fairy Tales, Lari Don
Apparently 2017 was a record year for Loch Ness Monster sightings. We predict 2018 will be even better… We’re so excited to reveal the cover for The …
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Lari Don’s Blog Tour – Spellchasers Q and A
Posted on 23/10/17 in Author Interviews, Lari Don
Today on the Discover Kelpies blog we’re delighted to be hosting Lari Don as she kicks off her spectacular Spellchasers blog tour. Lari Don’s Blog Tou …
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Spellchasers Fan Art Competition: The Winners!
Posted on 28/06/17 in Authors, Competitions, Lari Don
We love our Spellchasers fans, and it seems that they are an extremely talented and creative bunch! To celebrate the launch of The Witch’s Guide to Ma …
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Fan art competition: win the Spellchasers trilogy!
Posted on 26/05/17 in Authors, Competitions, Lari Don
Enter our fan art competition for the chance to win an exclusive Spellchasers prize bundle! Author Lari Don will judge the shortlisted entries and pic …
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Would you trust this Spellchasers character?
Posted on 20/04/17 in Guest posts, Lari Don
In The Beginner’s Guide to Curses, we met the Spellchasers team. The unluckily cursed Molly, Beth the dryad, Innes the Kelpie, and Atacama the sphinx. …
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The Spellchasers trilogy – what happens next?
Posted on 03/04/17 in Lari Don
At our special book launch for The Shapeshifter’s Guide to Running Away – the second book in Spellchasers trilogy – author Lari Don let us into some o …
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Meet the Spellchasers team!
Posted on 17/02/17 in Lari Don
You’re on a quest to lift your curse. You’ve just been surrounded by the grey men of Ben Macdui. You need someone to help you escape. Who would you ch …
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Superfans speculate on the Spellchasers trilogy
Posted on 01/02/17 in Lari Don
We’re waiting on tenterhooks to read The Shapeshifter’s Guide to Running Away, the next instalment of Lari Don’s Spellchasers trilogy. In The Beginner …
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Spellchasers: The Beginner’s Guide to Curses
Posted on 19/08/16 in Lari Don
You may have heard us talking about Lari Don’s amazing Spellchasers trilogy recently, and now the first book – The Beginner’s Guide to Curses – is fin …
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Clip clop CRASH! Yann and the Fabled Beasts gang are taking over DiscoverKelpies for a day!
Posted on 26/09/14 in Fun Stuff, Lari Don
Good morning Kelpies fans! We found this very mysterious blog waiting for us when we arrived at DiscoverKelpies Towers so of course we had to share it …
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#FlorisDesign Illustrator Interview: Philip Longson
Posted on 24/09/14 in Design and Illustration, Fun Stuff, Lari Don
Illustrator of…For the last three weeks we’ve dedicated our #FlorisDesign take-overs to showcasing our wonderfully talented Traditional Scottish Tal …
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Cover reveal! Introducing The Fabled Beast Chronicles by Lari Don
Posted on 09/05/14 in Authors, Lari Don
Happy Friday, Kelpies readers! And boy, do we have a treat for you. A cover reveal treat, that is! You might have heard some whispers over on the Disc …
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Lari Don — Storm Singing and Other Tangled Tasks — Author Interview
Posted on 18/08/11 in Lari Don
In case you missed it, here’s the Book of the Month Author Interview with Lari Don. Lari released her latest book in the First Aid for Fairies series …
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Lari Don Clowns Around!
Posted on 22/07/11 in Lari Don, Launches and Events
Check out a clip of Lari Don, author of the First Aid for Fairies series and Rocking Horse War, clowning around at Edinburgh’s Central Library. Have y …
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Lari Don Interview
Posted on 22/09/10 in Lari Don
Just in case you missed the Lari Don author interview which was posted at the release of her new book Rocking Horse War, here it is again. The questio …
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