Stories in Scots

A poem all about friendship featuring a creature called The Alligrog!

Flora finds counting hard, but one day she encounters a strange wee man who asks her to count his coos!

When you're a new big brother, a wee day out in Dundee with Dad sounds like a great idea.

The story of the Cailleach, the bringer of storms and winter.

Mr Galbraith introduces his class to Burns Suppers, and his favourite time of the year.

Young lamb Rasmie feels safe with his mum and his best friends in their small field. He doesn’t want to explore outside the fence. But one day the farmer opens the gate...

Mac and his dog Magic are best friends. When Mac’s school announce there’s to be a talent show, Magic encourages Mac to forget about his shyness and go for it!

When Miss Johnston asks the class to write a story about their holidays, Freya invents some special helpers called The Iggaleens to explain why she hasn’t written anything.

Harris and Iona decide to have a treasure-hunting competition using metal detectors. They set off with Harris's dog Growler into nearby woods, where the expedition takes an unexpected turn. A story in Doric by Sheena Blackhall.

A tired mum of three is fed up with her messy house. As she begins to clean up, she realises how long it's all going to take, and cries out for the fairies to help her. She immediately wishes she hadn't, because she knows that fairies will always want something in return …

Waste disposal on a spaceship is an important job. There’s enough rubbish, food scraps and other yukky stuff to keep a whole team of scaffies busy. But when the ship is attacked by refuse-loving aliens, it takes some clever thinking to solve the problem.

"Don't call me 'Witchy'!," Angel snarls at Tommy when he runs in to her in the afternoon. But when he sees her partying in the auld kirk later, he forgets himself ... James Rottger narrates a 21st Century tale inspired by Robert Burns' classic poem, Tam O'Shanter.

12 year old Euan is fascinated by the inscriptions on a standing stone near his house. He knows a bit about the history of the Pictish people who once lived in the area from his dad. But when he touches the stone, something strange seems to happen ...

Lori is startled when she accidentally disturbs a strange creature on the beach. The Shellycoat tells her about his gown of seaweed and shells, and how his powers have been fading since the shells began to break and fall away. Can she help?

When Zeus, the most important of all the gods on Mount Olympus, sends his daughter down to live on Earth, he has only one instruction for her: take this box with you, and do NOT open it. Nicola Roy tells the story from Pandora's point of view.

Two brothers in turn, are lured into the Draiglen Hogney's castle on a stormy night, only to be turned into stone. Their young sister Agnes vows to rescue them, but will she be able to outwit the evil ogre? A traditional Scots yarn, retold by Susi Briggs.

Helen and Aphrodite are half-sisters, but Helen's mother is a human, while Aphrodite's is a goddess. At Helen's birthday party, they ask the handsome Paris to decide which of them is the most beautiful. Big mistake. His reaction sparks the massive battle called the Trojan War.

It's the 21st Century, and the Minotaur is a ferocious beast that prowls a deserted housing estate, where there are no street lights and there's no mobile phone signal. A modern retelling of the classic tale, by Alan Bissett.

"See you, and your obsession wi bling?" Crawford Logan tells the sorry tale of King Midas whose love of all things gold causes him to lose the most precious thing he had in the world. His daughter.

It's dark when heavy snowfall stops Jenna, her mum and her little sister from driving any further. To stay warm, they knock on the door of a nearby house and are offered beds for the night. There's just one condition ...

The young laird of Littledean is suddenly found dead. There's no obvious reason for his death ... unless you believe the stories about the "auld man" who lived there before him.