The Glasgow Gruffalo: The Gruffalo in Glaswegian

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We might also have felt as apprehensive and scared as the animals who want to eat the mouse. We learn for instance, that the gruffalo’s favourite foods are “owl ice cream”, and “scrambled snake”. But in fact we don’t feel frightened, and we don’t even believe him! My little friend was giggling as much as I was, because: I just wanted to put a wee bit of light and cheer out there and to give parents and kids a wee break at this strange time."

Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.Renowned Scottish poet William Soutar was born in Perth on April 28, 1898 and lived in the city almost all his life. He published several collections in English and Scots, including a widely-loved book for children called Seeds in the Wind. Sharing the video on Facebook, Elaine C Smith said: "Wonderful Jessica!! I'm delighted with this - and she reads it much better than me!! Well done Jessica and much love." I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs.

They would come to the show and ask if we had made recordings of the music. We always thought ‘we must do this’,” Debra explains. Our events officer had mentioned to this friend how wonderful it would be to get Douglas to the festival and he offered to get in touch with him.You can find the full video of the reading of the 'Glasgow Gruffalo' here. The book itself can be found here.