Wee Gillis (New York Review Children's Collection)
by Munro Leaf
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Author: Munro LeafIllustrator: Robert Lawson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-30
ISBN: 159017206X
Number of pages: 80
Publisher: NYR Children's Collection
Book Reviews of Wee Gillis (New York Review Children's Collection)
Book Review: Wee Gillis Pipes On
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was a six-year-old, "Wee Gillis" was my second favorite book. ("The Story of Ferdinand" by the same Munro Leaf, author,and Robert Lawson,illustrator,was my first.) It is a joy to find that "Wee Gillis" is available in this new edition and that, at 74, I still enjoy it. I am giving it to my great-nephew.
Just one question. I thought that in the U.K. "oatmeal" refers to the uncooked cereal. When cooked, it becomes "porridge" if thick, "burgoo" if thinner and gluey, and "gruel" if very thin. Children would be familiar with the word "porridge". That's what the Three Bears had for breakfast.
Do they use "oatmeal" for the cooked product in Scotland, as we do in the U.S.A.?
Summary of Wee Gillis (New York Review Children's Collection)
A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of FerdinandWee 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.
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