Katie Morag of Course!

Katie Morag

by Mairi Hedderwick

Ideal for building reading confidence, and here are three new stories about Katie Morag specially written and illustrated for an older audience. 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. Children who have enjoyed the numerous Katie Morag picture books when they were younger will be delighted to see that Struay's endearing heroine is back in these island adventures for older readers.

Genres: Scotland, Childrens

64 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

About the author

Although she was born in Gourock, and attended the Edinburgh College of Art, the highlands and islands of Scotland have always been Mairi Hedderwick's true home. In 1962 she settled on Coll, where she raised her family and taught art at primary school. Her first home on Coll had no electricity or running water, and the nearest neighbor lived two miles away.

Mairi Hedderwick is the author and illustrator of the much loved Katie Morag series of children's books the first of which was published in 1984.

Hedderwick has also written and illustrated several travel books, including Highland Journey and An Eye on the Hebrides.

Reviews

[Kirsty · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remember, when I was at infant school, that we had a biweekly book club; essentially, a children's publisher would have a stall in the school hall, and we could contribute money each week to then save up for a book. I purchased a couple of Mairi Hedderwick's Katie Morag stories in this manner, and when I spotted Katie Morag of Course! on my library's online catalogue, the nostalgia factor was too great to not borrow it. Made up of three short stories, this is sweet, with nice messages woven through its heart.

[Jenna Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely

[Mary T · Rating 4 out of 5]

Katie Morag books are so much better than the toxic Ivy and Bean books.

[Marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

it was very good