Selkie a Scottish Folk Tale
Written & illustrated by Gillian McClure
Publication date: December 2015
Ages: 4+ years
Format: Paperback / 200 x 260 mm / 32 pages
ISBN: 978-1-909991-26-2
Rights available: World, except China (rights sold)
UK retail price: £6.99
Peter has heard the legend of the Selkie seals who can turn into humans, but he can hardly believe it when he rescues a real live Selkie from the oysterman’s nets. Beautiful Selkie teaches Peter the secret language of the sea, but will this be enough to save them when danger threatens?
Illustrated in evocative colours, Selkie is a beautiful picture book for young readers.
Awards and selections
Selkie won the US Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Books.
Resources & extras
Author Gillian McClure has made a video with the National Association for Primary Education where she works with a group of year 3 and 4 children in a primary school using Selkie as a teaching resource.
Reviews
“We are told Gillian McClure based her illustrations on the experience of visits to the island of Colonsay.
Whatever spirit informs them, they seem full of the sense of another time and another place; an
experience genuinely created and preserved.”
“A book to treasure and revisit. The illustrations are perfect.”
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