Online Bookbug Sessions: Publisher permissions

When sharing books online, it's essential that you have the permission of the publisher, credit the book correctly in the video and also take the film down after the specified date. If you would like to include a certain book in your online Bookbug Session, you must contact the publisher to request permission to use it. Every publisher has different guidelines on usage for this. A Google search should help you find contact details, but if you're struggling please contact [email protected] and we will endeavour to help.

Please note all videos must be available free of charge.

Bookbug Bag Books

Scottish Book Trust has secured permission from publishers for the majority of books included in the Bookbug Bags and Baby Box in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 - details are as follows:

2024 Books

We have permission for the following books to be included in online Bookbug Sessions, both live and recorded (up until 2029 after which recordings must be taken down)

• Ready, Steady…Snap! by Pat-a-Cake and Steve Mack (Hachette)
• Little Peekaboos: Eyes, Ears, Nose and Toes by Sophie Aggett (Little Tiger)
• Look Touch Learn Sky by Child's Play and Charlotte Archer (Child’s Play)
• Peck Peck Peck by Lucy Cousins (Walker)*
• Toddler Take Along: Nature by Becky Davies and Ana Zaja Petrak (Little Tiger)
• Bunnies on the Bus by Phillip Ardagh and Ben Mantle (Walker)*
• Mavis the Bravest by Lu Fraser and Sarah Warburton (Simon & Schuster)
• I Did See a Mammoth by Alex Willmore (Farshore)

2023 Books

We have permission to include these books in online Bookbug Sessions, both live and recorded (up until March 2028 after which recordings must be taken down)

• Peekaboo Baby Zoo by Pat-A-Cake and Zoe Waring (Hachette)
• Mirror Baby: Smile! by Campbell Books (Pan Macmillan)
• Baby Ladybird Black and White Vehicles (Penguin Random House)
• The Whales on the Bus by Katrina Chaman and Nick Sharratt (Bloomsbury)
• Tickle My Ears by Jörg Muhle (Gecko Press)
• Puddling! by Emma Perry and Claire Alexander (Walker Books)
• One Banana, Two Bananas by Charlotte Guillain, Adam Guillain and Sam Lloyd (HarperCollins)
• Follow the Trail Trucks by DK (DK)
• How to Catch a Rainbow by Naomi Jones and Ana Gomez (Oxford University Press)

We also have permission to include the following P1 titles in online Bookbug Sessions, both live and recorded (up until August 2028 after which recordings must be taken down):

• Five Bears by Catherine Rayner (MacMillan)
• Penelope Snoop, Ace Detective by Pamela Butchart and Christine Roussey (Bloomsbury)

2022 Books

We have permission for these titles to be used as part of LIVE online Bookbug Sessions only. If you wish to keep these sessions as recordings online, you would need to seek extra permission from the publisher to do so:

• Little Baby's Playtime by Nick Sharratt and Sally Symes (Walker Books)
• Baby's Very First Black and White Book: Animals (Usborne)
• Ready Steady: Roar! by Pat-a-Cake (Hachette)
• Get Out of My Bath! by Britta Teckentrup (Nosy Crow)
• Monster Clothes by Daisy Hirst (Walker Books)
• Wonderful World of Colours by Tim Hopgood (Oxford University Press)
• All Kinds of Families by Sophy Henn (Harper Collins)
• The Button Book by Sally Nicholls and Bethan Woollvin (Andersen)
• The Littlest Yak by Lu Fraser and Kate Hindley (Simon and Schuster)
• My First Book of Sea Creatures by Zoe Ingram (Walker Books)
• Scaredy Bat by Jonathan Meres and Anders Frang (Little Door)
• Stuck Inside by Sally Garland (Sunbird Books)

2021 Books

We have permission for these titles to be used as part of LIVE online Bookbug Sessions only. If you wish to keep these sessions as recordings online, you will need to seek extra permission to do so:

• Amazing Baby: Peek-a-boo Baby by Emma Dodd (Templar)
• Sleep Tight Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Penguin Random House)
• Baby Faces (Dorling Kindersley)
• Hey Diddle Diddle by Annie Kubler and Sarah Dellow (Child’s Play)
• Peek-a-boo Baby Moo! By Zoe Waring (Hachette)
• Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins (Penguin Random House)
• Shapes With Little Fish by Lucy Cousins (Walker Books)
• Stanley's Café by William Bee (Penguin Random House)
• The Runaway Pea by Kjartan Poskitt and Alex Willmore (Simon and Schuster)
• Don't Worry, Little Crab by Chris Haughton (Walker Books)
• Follow the Trail: Minibeasts (DK)
• Arlo The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep by Catherine Rayner (Macmillan)
• Inch and Grub by Alastair Chisholm and David Roberts (Walker Books)
• My First Book of Woodland Animals by Zoë Ingram (Walker Books)