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Catch up on a new BBC Authors Live broadcast with Catherine Rayner as she shares her latest picture book Arlo: The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep, a beautiful story about finding peace and calm. Catherine will also do some live painting and reveal step by step how she creates her beautiful illustrations.
A Scottish Book Trust event
Catch up on a new BBC Authors Live broadcast with Catherine Rayner as she shares her latest picture book Arlo: The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep, a beautiful story about finding peace and calm. Catherine will also do some live painting and reveal step by step how she creates her beautiful illustrations.
A Scottish Book Trust event
![Catherine Rayner || Arlo: The Lion Who Couldnt Sleep [AGES 5-7]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/62bJWlPugP4/mqdefault.jpg "Catherine Rayner || Arlo: The Lion Who Couldnt Sleep [AGES 5-7]
Catch up on a new BBC Authors Live broadcast with Catherine Rayner as she shares her latest picture book Arlo: The Lion Who Couldnt Sleep, a beautiful story about finding peace and calm. Catherine will also do some live painting and reveal step by step how she creates her beautiful illustrations.
A Scottish Book Trust event")
![Stories for Lockdown || Stay at Home [AGES 7-12]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AJn6hkW8zw4/mqdefault.jpg "Stories for Lockdown || Stay at Home [AGES 7-12]
It’s almost a year since writers from across Scotland united to publish a book of stories and poems all about lockdown. Hear them share their work, which might resonate with some of your own experiences of staying at home. Have you seen aliens? Had a bad haircut? Celebrated a birthday a bit differently? Some of the stories are serious, some are silly, but they all remind us there’s a rainbow after the storm")
