Mairi Hedderwick

A lovely story of an Island ceilidh, family, celebration, panic, and why it's not good to sing about shoving your other Granny off a bus when both your Grannies are there to hear it. (Fortunately there was a last minute change of programme!) Like all Katie Morag books this is a delightful Island story. But a word of warning, the Red Fox Mini Treasures series are tiny... and they photoreduce both illustrations and text. I'm a grannie, and I can't read 5-point print without strong light and a magnifying glass.… (meer)

If you, like me, are blessed with grandsons who tend to immediately reenact the most objectionable behaviour they read about, this may not be the book for your family. The big boy cousins really get up to some awful hijinks and the way they ignore and disobey their grannie is just terrible. However, once they get the worst of it out of their system (which takes most of the book) they settle down to helpfulness and treats on the last three pages. Like all Katie Morag books this is a delightful Island story. But a word of warning, the Red Fox Mini Treasures series are tiny... and they photoreduce illustrations and text. I'm a grannie, and I can't read 5-point print without strong light and a magnifying glass.

It's as if the big boy cousins didn't want adults to read about their horrible naughtiness!… (meer)