A Julia Donaldson story inspires an army dads project

17 August 2012 Last updated at 10:37 ET Help

The Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson has a busy festival season ahead.

As well as appearing in her own show at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Glasgow-based author's work has been adapted for a number of stage shows.

In one of them, soldiers in combat zones such as Afghanistan are helped to read bedtime stories to their children in the UK.

BBC Scotland's arts correspondent Pauline McLean reports.

Edinburgh Festivals 2012

BBC © 2013 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more.

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.