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Matthew Fitt

Mathew FittAuthor File - Matthew Fitt
Biography
I was born in Dundee in 1968, the son of an Irish jute spinner. My mum worked as a journalist and I used to help my gran make jam. I read mainly Doctor Who books when I was a bairn, collecting 68 of them in all and reading over and over the Doctor's adventures in time and space. I've lived near Biggar in Clydesdale for about 12 years in the shadow of Culter Fell and beside the Coulter Water which is a tributary of the Clyde. A heron and a hoolet live in the trees outside our house and keep us company in the long Lanarkshire winters.I always go for my holidays to the Czech Republic, a country in the middle of Europe full of old castles and beautiful towns and people with extraordinary tales to tell. Dundee and Prague are my two home towns where I get most of the ideas and inspiration I need to keep writing.
Selected Books

Rabbie's RhymesRabbie's rhymes by Matthew Fitt
A simple, funny, colourful introduction to Burns, 'Rabbie's Rhymes' will entertain the bairns and encourage parents and teachers not only to recite the lines from the poems but perhaps also to sing the tunes to songs like 'Ca the Yowes' and 'Ye Banks and Braes'.



Katies FarmKatie's ferm by Matthew Fitt
Katie visits her grandparents' farm and goes in search of the mischievous cat Tam, who keeps one step ahead of her all the way. Katie asks all the animals if they have seen Tam.




KidnappitKidnappit by Matthew Fitt
The first ever graphic novel in Scots! Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy, renowned for their work writing and illustrating such weel-kent graphic fiction as Batman, Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd and Star Wars, have reworked Stevenson's classic tale of adventure in 18th-century Scotland to produce this brilliant new version.