Hoolet Publishing

25/01/2020

🥃 “The waters around them make merry”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Happy Burns Night. Enjoy company, good food and the work of Robert Burns AND Robot Burns.

📖 What do you make of this snippet?

🥴Is *Robot* Burns mocking patriotism? Is he talking about the water of whisky or the water of the North Sea?

📚 Publishing in March 2020, this pamphlet, produced by Perry Gibson is raising money for Scottish Samaritans. The entire cover price of £10 goes to this extremely worthy cause.

🛒 You can pre order at www.robotburns.com

23/01/2020

'The Robot Burns pamphlet includes 20 works across a variety of subjects and is accompanied by illustrations by Alasdair Currie, co-founder of independent Scottish publisher Hoolet Publishing.'

They are some of the most well-known and loved poems in the world whose insightful sentiments have withstood the test of time over hundreds of years.

21/01/2020

Ahead of Burns Night, we're releasing a collection of works inspired by Scotland's national bard using AI. All proceeds will go to The Samaritans and their work to prevent su***de. Order your copy here:

Robot BurnsCan artificial intelligence replicate the elegance, insight and wit of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns? That is the question Perry Gibson seeks to explore in this short pamphlet of works generated by his Robert Burns artificial intelligence program, fondly titled “Robot Burns.....

04/06/2018

"An Alloa author is hoping to encourage more Clacks youngsters to chase their dreams after he overcame dyslexia to publish his first book. Ali Currie, who attended Claremont primary and Alloa Academy, returned to the county last Wednesday to showcase his work and remind young minds that anything is possible."

AN ALLOA author is hoping to encourage more Clacks youngsters to chase their dreams after he overcame dyslexia to publish his first book.

24/03/2018

Thank you, Bookpoint Dunoon! Great questions from Dunoon’s young readers!

23/03/2018

Article in Dunoon’s local paper covering this week’s school visits and a reminder that we’ll be at Bookpoint tomorrow at 3pm!

21/03/2018

Thank you Kirn Primary School, Dunoon Primary School & Innellan Primary School. ❤️

20/03/2018

‪Mini Mimi’s tour with Ali Currie continues! Today we’re at Houston Primary School, Renfrewshire Council www.hoolet.scot

19/03/2018

A shout out to the pupils at Lenzie Meadow Primary School who made our author Ali Currie feel so welcome at our rearranged World Book Day event.

27/01/2018

Over 40 folk at this afternoon’s session with Ali Currie at the Glasgow Science Centre. We’re back tomorrow at 11:30 and 14:00 😊

24/01/2018

We're baaaaaack...!

Delighted to be returning to the Glasgow Science Centre this weekend as new author Ali Currie brings his new book, "Marvellous Machines and Mini Mimi" back to Glasgow.

Ali will be reading the book and leading some fun interactive activities as part of the Build It weekend of events for Little Learners.

The Science Centre is open from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th January. Ali's sessions will be at 11am and 2.30pm both days.

Event synopsis:

Marvellous Machines and Mini Mimi is a story about a little girl with BIG ideas. The author and illustrator of this brilliant story, Ali Currie, is joining us for a special reading. If you have a son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandchild or any magnificent child aged 3 to 8 years old, please join Ali, as he reads the full story. The tale is particularly interesting to kids who loves science, technology and confident female characters who are not there to be saved by dashing white knights! You will hear all about Mimi and take part in some short activities based around the story of "Marvellous Machines and Mini Mimi".

Come along, meet the author and enjoy the rest of this fantastic attraction!

https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/whats-on/marvellous-machines-and-mini-mimi