Wee Gillis

Wee Gillis
Author: Munro Leaf
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2006-05-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 159017206X

A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand Wee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the lowlands, while the other half finds him in the highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family are eager for him to settle down and adopt their ways. In the lowlands, he is taught to herd cattle, learning how to call them to him in even the heaviest of evening fogs. In the rocky highlands, he stalks stags from outcrop to outcrop, holding his breath so as not to make a sound. Wee Gillis is a quick study, and he soon picks up what his elders can teach him. And yet he is unprepared when the day comes for him to decide, once and for all, whether it will be the lowlands or the highlands that he will call his home. Robert Lawson and Munro Leaf's classic picture book is a tribute to the powers of the imagination and a triumph of the storyteller's and illustrator's art.

Wee Gillis

Wee Gillis
Author: Munro Leaf
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2006-05-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781590172063

A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand Wee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the lowlands, while the other half finds him in the highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family are eager for him to settle down and adopt their ways. In the lowlands, he is taught to herd cattle, learning how to call them to him in even the heaviest of evening fogs. In the rocky highlands, he stalks stags from outcrop to outcrop, holding his breath so as not to make a sound. Wee Gillis is a quick study, and he soon picks up what his elders can teach him. And yet he is unprepared when the day comes for him to decide, once and for all, whether it will be the lowlands or the highlands that he will call his home. Robert Lawson and Munro Leaf's classic picture book is a tribute to the powers of the imagination and a triumph of the storyteller's and illustrator's art.

B is for Bagpipes

B is for Bagpipes
Author: Eve Begley Kiehm
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1585365734

What country is made up of 95 islands, invented the game of golf, and raised a warrior worthy of the name "Braveheart"? Welcome to Scotland! In B is for Bagpipes: A Scotland Alphabet, Scottish native Eve Begley Kiehm gives an A-Z tour of the country that may be small in size but a giant in history and rich in tradition. Kick up your heels at a Highland dance, visit the statue of Greyfriar's Bobby as he stands guard near his master's grave, and finally dig into a dish of haggis with a side helping of "tatties and neeps." From the splendors of capital city Edinburgh to the stories of Robert Louis Stevenson to the gloomy waters of Loch Ness and its lonely "Nessie," the treasures of Scotland are revealed. Colorful artwork captures the proud spirit of its landscape and culture.Eve Begley Kiehm was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland. She has a master's degree in Scottish History and Literature from Glasgow University and an early childhood education certification from the University of Toronto. Her books about Scotland include a YA historical adventure novel. Eve lives in the San Diego area. Alexa Rutherford lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. She has illustrated many books for UK publishers and a handful of US publishers, as well as US children's magazines.

The Island of Horses

The Island of Horses
Author: Eilís Dillon
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781590171028

When two boys from a remote island off the western Irish coast venture to the forbidden Island of Horses, they find a mysterious tame black colt and unexpected danger.

Wee Gillis

Wee Gillis
Author: Robert Lawson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 71
Release: 1985
Genre:
ISBN:

Wee Gillis couldn't decide whether he wanted to be a Highlander and stalk stags, like his father, or a Lowlander like his mother, and raise long-haired cows.

Wee Willie Winkie and Other Rhymes

Wee Willie Winkie and Other Rhymes
Author: Iona Archibald Opie
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Board books
ISBN: 9780763616311

Includes 8 nursery rhymes with whimsical illustrations.

The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse

The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse
Author: Louise Guinness
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1400044251

This hilariously readable collection of classic nonsense poetry, delightfully illustrated throughout, is a showcase of comic talent and sheer silliness. The Everyman Book of Nonsense Verse features an eclectic spectrum of contributors ranging wildly from Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to Hilaire Belloc, Ted Hughes, Ogden Nash, and Shakespeare, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake, Quentin Blake, Emma Chichester Clark, Spike Milligan, and the deliciously sinister Edward Gorey. Such old favorites as “The Owl and the Pussycat” are accompanied by “Macavity: The Mystery Cat” and “Jabberwocky,” while Ted Hughes’s “Wodwo” sits alone by the bank of a stream in a state of innocence and curiosity that mirrors a child’s sense of wonder at the universe. Whether sweetly funny or deliciously naughty, these masterpieces of the art of the absurd will charm readers both young and old.

The Crane

The Crane
Author:
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781590170755

In an ever-expanding city, one young man claims the job of his dreams, operator of the tallest crane around. Since others envy his position, he never leaves his crane, always eager for the day—and work—to begin. As the seasons pass, man and machine almost become one. "The crane was a giant with iron sinews, and the craneman was its heart." Then people begin to hoard their goods, grinning ravens multiply throughout the land, and war is at hand. But the craneman never falters, remaining at his post even when the land is flooded, ready for reconstruction to begin.

Winnie-the-Pooh's Revolving Picture Book

Winnie-the-Pooh's Revolving Picture Book
Author: Alan Alexander Milne
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1990
Genre: Toy and movable books
ISBN: 9780525446453

Six adventures featuring Pooh and his friends, illustrated with drawings and circular pictures with parts that can be moved by a ribbon to reveal a new picture.