Animal ABC: A Scots Alphabet - Softcover

Rennie, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190292746X ISBN 13: 9781902927466

Publisher: Itchy Coo, 2002

Synopsis

The Animal ABC is aimed especially at young children from pre-school to lower primary, but its humour and warmth will appeal to readers right up to adult level. This ABC is the perfect introduction to the 26 letters of the alphabet, to a range of familiar and exotic creatures, and to some key Scots words used in everyday conversation.

Susan Rennie's carefully chosen phrases introduce the reader to: o a drookit draigon in a dub o wabbit wasps washin windaes o unicorns unner umberellaes and a whole menagerie of other funny, friendly and only slightly ferocious beasts.

Karen Sutherland's striking illustrations take the words one stage further, beautifully complementing them in a book that will be returned to again and again as a source of pleasure and learning for both children and adults alike.

About this title

About the Authors

Susan Rennie is a writer, researcher and lexicographer. She was Editor of the Dictionary of the Scots Language and the Historical Thesaurus of Scots projects at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow. She has worked on The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and Chambers Dictionary and is the chief editor of the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary. Susan has written several books in Scots for children, including The GFG: The Guid Freendly Giant (The BFG in Scots) and The Derk Isle, the first Scots translation of Tintin.

Karen Sutherland is an award-winning artist who is also the illustrator of Animal ABC, A Moose in the Hoose, Eck the Bee and all the books in the Katie series, Katie's Coo, Katie's Moose and Katie's Ferm.

Edition details

• Publisher: Itchy Coo
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: Scots
• ISBN 10: 190292746X
• ISBN 13: 9781902927466
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Sutherland Karen
• Number of pages: 32