scotland

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scotland

Ring of bright water

1974
An account of the author's life on the northwest coast of Scotland describing his constant companions Mijbil and Edal, the otters, and other animals who shared his life there.

William Wallace

brave heart
1996

Elizabeth and Mary

cousins, rivals, queens
2004

The Wedding

1996
Love and adventure set in Scotland.

Pirican Pic and Pirican Mor

2003
The story of two friends who go off to pick walnuts. The adventure begins after one friend has been picking the walnuts, while the other has eaten every one. Based on a Scottish folktale.

Wild wings

2011
Callum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her home in Gambia.

The selkie girl

1986
A retelling of the legend from British coasts and islands in which a man falls in love with a beautiful seal girl and forces her to live on land and be his bride.

The tiny, tiny boy and the big, big cow

A Scottish folk tale
1993
A cumulative story in which a tiny, tiny boy tries to milk a big, big cow who will not stand still.

Little house in the Highlands

1999
The childhood adventures in the Scottish countryside of six-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Mary Queen of Scots

2007
Presents a concise biography of Mary, Queen of Scotts, who was considered a traitor to her country, schemed against Elizabeth I, and was executed in 1587.

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