In November 2012 it was announced that the BBC's CBeebies channel had commissioned a series of 26 14-minute live-action dramas, to be made by Coutts' Cromarty-based production company Move on Up. When the village mail gets muddled, it's up to Katie Morag to sort things out - with a little help from Grannie Island and her tractor. This Island and Mainland Life Activity to Support Teaching on Katie Morag is a great resource to support reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. After a successful tour of smaller venues in Argyll and the Highlands followed by a week at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in 2005, [26] [27] [28] [29] the production was revived as a Christmas show at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews in 2007, [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] and toured again in 2008.

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It also uses a lot of illustrations which is really good as children can see and understand all about the island.Hedderwick has also written and illustrated several travel books, including Highland Journey and An Eye on the Hebrides. After a bubble bath, and having her fleece perfumed, powdered and curled, Grannie Islands sheep is judged the hands-down trophy winner. To get started with this comparing island and mainland life activity, all you need to do is download and print out as many copies of the resource as you require.

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A number of books in the series have been translated into Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Japanese, and Scottish Gaelic. The book does tend to sway towards a rather biased message of 'mutton dressed up as lamb' and the character assassination of poor old grandmother Mainland, all to humorous effect.We discussed respecting others and valuing differences which rose a lot of conversation for PSHE and literacy on one day. Mairi Hedderwick (born 2 May 1939) is a Scottish illustrator and author, known for the Katie Morag series of children's picture books set on the Isle of Struay, a fictional counterpart of the inner Hebridean island of Coll where Hedderwick has lived at various times for much of her life. To go along with these, our fantastic Isle of Struay Map can help learners visualise the story as they read it. Although she was born in Gourock, and attended the Edinburgh College of Art, the highlands and islands of Scotland have always been Mairi Hedderwick’s true home. Also the relationship between the two grandmothers offer a good flowing story line as well as some comic relief.