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Meg and Mog
Mog's Missing
It's Midsummer Eve and Meg and Mog fly off to meet their friends, but naughty Mog is messing around and falls from the broom. Meg and friends form a search party, but however hard they look, Mog just can't be found.
- GenresChildrensPicture Books
32 pages, Hardcover
First published September 29, 2005
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Helen Nicoll
70 books20 followersHelen Nicoll was born in Natland, Westmorland, in 1937. She was educated at schools in Bristol; Dartington Hall, Devon; and Froebel Education Institute, London. Helen Nicoll married Robert Kime in 1970 and they have one daughter and one son.
Helen Nicoll was a television producer with the BBC for many years. It was here, as Producer of the children's educational series WATCH, that she first met Jan Pienkowski. After working together for four years, they decided it was time to preserve their creativity in book form for future generations of children to enjoy. The result is the immensely popular MEG AND MOG series.
In addition to the MEG AND MOG series, Helen has a long and varied association with Puffin - as editor of the Junior Puffin magazine THE EGG from 1977 - 1979, as compiler of the popular children's poetry anthology POEMS FOR SEVEN YEAR OLDS AND UNDER, illustrated by Michael Foreman, and through her partnership with Puffin, the enormously popular series of Puffin Cover to Cover story tapes of which Helen is the Producer.
Helen Nicoll was a television producer with the BBC for many years. It was here, as Producer of the children's educational series WATCH, that she first met Jan Pienkowski. After working together for four years, they decided it was time to preserve their creativity in book form for future generations of children to enjoy. The result is the immensely popular MEG AND MOG series.
In addition to the MEG AND MOG series, Helen has a long and varied association with Puffin - as editor of the Junior Puffin magazine THE EGG from 1977 - 1979, as compiler of the popular children's poetry anthology POEMS FOR SEVEN YEAR OLDS AND UNDER, illustrated by Michael Foreman, and through her partnership with Puffin, the enormously popular series of Puffin Cover to Cover story tapes of which Helen is the Producer.
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October 21, 2019
Mog goes missing in this seventeenth Meg and Mog picture-book, falling off of Meg's broom as she rides to a witchy gathering with Bess, Jess, Tess and Cress. The five witches organize a search party, but they end up one step behind the missing feline, until Meg cooks up a spell - "Glow worm, toad / And mistletoe / Where Mog's gone / Everybody go!" - that lands them all in tight quarters in her cauldron. All ends happily once they are extricated, however, as Meg's witch-friends depart, and she and Mog head home for breakfast...
Published in 2005, some thirty-three years after the initial Meg and Mog , which first saw print in 1972, Mog's Missing is an entertaining addition to author Helen Nicoll and illustrator Jan Pieńkowski's witchy picture-book series. It is the first to include other magical practitioners (all of whom look very much like Meg), and contains a number of humorous scenes - Meg's crash-landing at the witches' gathering; the two-page spread in which everyone is inside the cauldron, the darkness relieved only by their eyes, and the various speech bubbles containing their exclamations - that add to the sense of fun. Recommended to young children who enjoy witchy fare, particularly if they are already familiar with these characters.
Published in 2005, some thirty-three years after the initial Meg and Mog , which first saw print in 1972, Mog's Missing is an entertaining addition to author Helen Nicoll and illustrator Jan Pieńkowski's witchy picture-book series. It is the first to include other magical practitioners (all of whom look very much like Meg), and contains a number of humorous scenes - Meg's crash-landing at the witches' gathering; the two-page spread in which everyone is inside the cauldron, the darkness relieved only by their eyes, and the various speech bubbles containing their exclamations - that add to the sense of fun. Recommended to young children who enjoy witchy fare, particularly if they are already familiar with these characters.
September 12, 2018
I remember reading Meg and Mog when I was a small child and I loved it! I'm so happy I get to share these books with my 3 year old daughter. She really enjoyed this one, it made her giggle and she really wanted to know where Mog went. Adorable!
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some say this may not count - alexia, but when we are this behind on my goodreads goal I'm gonna count it 🎀🩷
some say this may not count - alexia, but when we are this behind on my goodreads goal I'm gonna count it 🎀🩷
September 27, 2016
Meg and Mog has been one of my favourite books ever since I was a little girl. There's something about Jan Pieńkowski's vivid illustrations that just makes me smile. Our children also love the adventures of witch Mog, her stripy cat Mog, and Owl. If you want to take a learning angle, these stories are great for thinking about magic, recipes (ingredients for spells) and rhymes. But I love them just because they are so much fun. I won't write individual reviews for the books in this series, as they all have their moments of delight!
**I love this one if only for the wonderful picture of Meg doing a double-take when she realises that Mog is missing!**
**I love this one if only for the wonderful picture of Meg doing a double-take when she realises that Mog is missing!**
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