A view of Lochwinnoch, with trees and hills in the background, taken from Lochwinnoch Primary School

The cover to DRAGON STORM – TOMAS AND IRONSKIN by Alastair Chisholm. Cover shows a boy riding a dragon in flight.

The cover to ONE SILLY SAUSAGE DOG by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by Alex Willmore. Cover shows a sausage dog chasing after balls.

The cover to REEK by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by George Saltsoudas. Cover shows a girl swinging past a sci-fi urban landscape.

Happy #BookWeekScotland Friday!
It's a chilly morning, but a lovely warm welcome at #LochwinnochPrimary. #DragonStorm, #OneSillySausageDog and #Reek today!!

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Join us this Saturday (27th Sept) for the Children's Book Fest at @ifecosse.bsky.social in #Edinburgh! I'll be there with my new picture book ONE SILLY SAUSAGE DOG – come along for doggy mayhem!
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Hello! Join me (not Whisky, sorry!) at Institut français d’Écosse on 27th Sept for their FREE Children's Book Festival, with me and many other authors and illustrators!

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Children’s Book Festival at the Institut français d’Écosse Alastair Chisholm will be at the Children’s Book Festival at the Institut français d’Écosse reading his new picture book ONE SILLY SAUSAGE DOG on Saturday 27th September 2025

Bonjour! Join me and others at the Institut français d’Écosse's FREE Children's Book Festival this month in #Edinburgh, for storytelling and malarkey with my new book #OneSillySausageDog!

Details and tickets 👉 alastairc.com/events/20250...

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One Silly Sausage Dog at the Edinburgh Kids Book Fringe! Join Alastair Chisholm and Cordelia the Silly Sausage Dog for a free Edinburgh ALT Fringe storytime session at Argonaut Books!

Hello parents! Join me this Monday 18th, 10:30am for a FREE #EdBookFringe storytime event at @argonautbooks.bsky.social, featuring Cordelia the lovely – but *very* silly – Sausage Dog…

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Two stacks of books and an iced cappucino. The stack on the left is of One Silly Sausage Dog by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by Alex Willmore, and the stack on the right is of Blitzers by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by Francesca Ficorilli

Congratulations to everyone having a book birthday today! 🎉I've been all over #Edinburgh signing copies on a ludicrously hot day, phew – more photos to come, but meanwhile here I am recovering with iced cappucino at @argonautbooks.bsky.social…
#OneSillySausageDog #Blitzers #BookLaunch

The covers of two books by Alastair Chisholm. One Silly Sausage Dog (illustrated by Alex Willmore) has a picture of a sausage dog chasing after balls. Blitzers (illustrated by Francesca Ficorilli) shows three children running from a giant robot.

🎉NEW BOOKS!🎉 It's a double launch day here with #OneSillySausageDog and #Blitzers, woo-hoo! Fun counting chaos in the park, and a virtual fighting game that turns deadly – find them in your lovely local bookshop now!
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A toy sausage dog looking out of a bus window. Behind it is a copy of One Silly Sausage Dog by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by Alex Willmore

Cordelia Sausage Dog is on her way to the #EdBookFest for some storytelling fun!
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August – Blitzers, Silly Sausage Dogs, and Edinburgh Events! Alastair Chisholm's August round-up: Blitzers from Barrington Stoke, One Silly Sausage Dog from Hachette, plus Edinburgh events.

🚨 NEW BOOKS! EDINBURGH EVENTS! 🚨
August is coming, and there is a TON of stuff going on. Join me at @edbookfest.bsky.social for my new books #Blitzers and #OneSillySausageDog, plus more free August events – read on for more! alastairc.com/blog/2025073...
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A poster advertising the Waterstones 25% OFF deal. Poster shows the cover of ONE SILLY SAUSAGE DOG, a picture book by Alastair Chisholm, illustrated by Alex Willmore. Book cover shows a sausage dog chasing after balls. Poster also shows the message "Pre-order now with code: SUMMER25. 28-31 July. Online Only"

🚨LAST DAY 🚨 to pre-order #OneSillySausageDog online and get 25% off this tale of doggy nonsense from me and the brilliant #AlexWillmore – grab it quick with code SUMMER25!

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