You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Little Katie is charged with delivering the mail, but a fall in the water obliterates the addresses.
One of a series of picture books featuring the ever-resourceful Katie Morag and her family and friends on the Isle of Struay. When workmen arrive to build a new pier, everyone looks forward to the changes it will bring to island life - and Katie has a special contribution of her own to make.
Following the immense success of the Hebridean diaries and address books, Birlinn added a birthday book to its attractive range of Hebridean stationery. Illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick's beautiful sketches of the Hebrides, this large-format, hardback book is the perfect way to remember birthdays of friends and family. It also makes an excellent gift.
Everyone is buzzing with pre-wedding excitement on the Isle of Struay - everyone except Grannie Island. Can Katie Morag cheer her up in time for the big day?.
Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair. Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched by her spell-binding illustrations, Mairi Hedderwick portrays the islands in all their diversity, with swift and perceptive cameos of everyday life drawn with humour and affection alongside gorgeous landscapes which capture the truly magical beauty of the Hebrides.
Those who have loved the Katie Morag picture books will be delighted to see that Struay's endearing heroine is back in this collection of three ilustrated stories for older children - ideal for building reading confidence. In Saturday Sweets Katie Morag and Liam can't decide which sweets to give Granny Island as a present but they do decide that the best way to make up their minds is to taste all the sweets themselves. In The Pony and the Hamster Katie Morag is thrilled when Granny Island gets a pony called Eriska, but Katie and her friend Agnes soon find out that looking after a pet is a big responsibility. And in The Camping Holiday Katie Morag and the Big Boy Cousins find themselves stranded by the tide but luckily Eriska is on hand to save the day.
Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 1996.
Welcome to the Island of Struay, home of one of the best-loved characters in children's books and as seen on TV - Katie Morag McColl! Discover some of the secrets of Katie Morag's island home in the many stories, poems and pictures in this treasure-trove of a collection. Find out if Castle McColl really is haunted, discover the identity of the hairy hermit who never visits the village, and join in the birthday celebrations with Grannie Island and Granma Mainland. There's never a dull moment with Katie Morag!
Following the success of an Eye on the Hebrides, Mairi Hedderwick was urged to embark on further travels. It was no easy task. A new journey, with its inherent deprivations and discomforts, could not be done to order. It had to be a compulsion - an inspiration.
Join Katie Morag McColl and her family on the Isle of Struay in this beautiful gift collection of classic stories. There are many adventures to be had on the Isle of Struay. There's her mum and dad's Shop and Post Office, Grannie Island's house across the bay, the dancing classes at the hall - and just wait till the mischevious Big Boy Cousins come to visit - they're lots of fun! Also included in this new collection are six folk tales, as featured in the popular CBeebies series, specially illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick for the show, and exclusively printed in this collection. So grab your jumper, don your wellies and discover the delights of Struay! "Katie Morag lives the life that country dreams are made of" Independent