Author is sticking up for Scots with children’s book translation

Stick mannie’s lanely, Stick Mannie’s lost Stick Mannie’s frozen, all happit wi frost Stick Mannie’s wabbit – a snooze wid be braw.

Gantin, he streeks himsel oot in the snaw.”

SO is the winter of discontent for Stick Mannie, the unfortunate protagonist at the heart of Scottish novelist James Roberton’s latest work. Our poor hero – a stick that lives and breathes and runs aboot the place – is taken on an unwilling adventure throughout the pages of Stick Mannie, a new Scots translation of Julia Donaldson’s 2008 children’s book, Stick Man.