Children
Children
Benny-benny Seawater: The First Day of the Summer Holidays
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson
Young children will love this latest Benny-benny Seawater story which is beautifully illustrated by Katherine Laidlay.
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Da Peesterleeties and da Curse o da Njuggle
Valerie Watt
Valerie Watt
Tammas and Tulya Peesterleetie have three children; the troublesome twins Tivla and Fivla and their elder sister Trippa. After a disastrous bulwand flying lesson with their Da, Tivla and Fivla embark on a life-threatening adventure as they try to put things right.
Threatened by the curse of the njuggle, the boys depend on Trippa for help. Trippa leads them to Shetland’s most reputed wizard, Luggie. He claims the curse has never been reversed before. Can Luggie save them?
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Dodie’s Phenomenal Pheesic
Christine De Luca
Christine De Luca
Translation of Roald Dahl’s ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’ into Shetland Dialect
By Christine De Luca, Illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Our price: £5.99
Shetland Plays
Marsali Taylor
Marsali Taylor
Two short plays in Shetland dialect written for schoolchildren.
Our price: £6.99
Shetland Wildlife Alphabet
Mary Isbister
Mary Isbister
Children’s guide to Shetland’s wildlife in dialect.
A peerie book ta help peerie bairns ta learn ta spaek Shetlan’. Mary Isbister did da paintings and wrat da verse so wir young folk wid keen da Shetlan names fur some o da plants an animals dey micht see whin dey waander roond da isles. [A little book to help little children to learn to speak Shetland. Mary Isbister did the paintings and wrote the verse so our young folk would know the Shetland names for some of the plants and animals they might see when they wander round the isles.]
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The Grumpy Old Sailor
Janice Armstrong & Meilo So
Janice Armstrong & Meilo So
What on earth is that grumpy old sailor up to?
...Dragons and telescopes, red paint and
sea charts...find out in this lively
adventure with Magnus
and his friends.
...Dragons and telescopes, red paint and
sea charts...find out in this lively
adventure with Magnus
and his friends.
Our price: £9.99
The Travels of Magnus Pole
Jonathan Wills
Jonathan Wills
Magnus Pole lived a long time ago on an island in Shetland. He kept a small farm but he much preferred fishing because it took him away from a job he hated – grinding oats and barley with a knocking stone. One day it took him so far away that Magnus Pole thought he would never see his family or the knocking stone again. He was right in one of his guesses. Follow him on his travels and find out which!
Our price: £7.50
Wilma Widdershins and da Muckle Tree
Jonathan Wills, pictures by Gurli Feilberg
Jonathan Wills, pictures by Gurli Feilberg
A gripping childern's story wonderfully illustrated.
This is the story of how Wilma Widdershins found the biggest bit of driftwood ever; how she brought home ‘Da Muckle Tree’ in the third winter of the Second World War; and what happened many years later, after the Huppies phoned the woodyard in the far town.
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