Sweetieraptors: A Book o Scots Dinosaurs

Itchy Coo

by Susan Rennie, Julie Lacome (Illustrator)

Dae Sweetieraptors Eat Broon Rice? is a funny and warm poem about all kinds of amazing dinosaurs with Scots names. Although aimed at young children from pre-school to lower primary, its humour will appeal to readers of all ages. Among those the bairns will meet are Sweetieraptors, Wheechosaurs, Clartydactyls and the spiky Jaggiesaurus. The beautiful illustrations bring the words alive, to create a book that will be returned to again and again as a source of pleasure and learning for both children and adults alike.

32 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2002

About the author

Susan Rennie is a writer, researcher and lexicographer. She was Editor of the Dictionary of the Scots Language and the Historical Thesaurus of Scots projects at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow. She has worked on The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and Chambers Dictionary, and is the chief editor of the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary. Her monograph on Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots (OUP, 2012) was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year, and she recently discovered the lost manuscript of James Boswell's Scots dictionary, which she is currently editing for publication. Susan was also one of the co-founders of Itchy Coo Books and has written several books in Scots for children, including the award-winning Animal ABC and The Derk Isle, the first Scots translation of Tintin.