Ronan as Kirree er y chroit
Illustrated children’s book
Michael Bauer | 30 September 2012
Paperback & eBook
£10.50 (eBook £3.50) | Available
ISBN 9781907165054 (eBook 9781907165269)
Foyles
| Blackwell's
| Amazon
UK
Hugendubel
| Amazon
DE
McNally
| Amazon
CA
Barnes
& Noble | Amazon
US
Fishpond.com.au
Fishpond.co.nz
Kindle UK
& Ireland | USA
| CA | DE |
AU &
NZ
*A Kindle app is also available on Android
and iOS
This is our first Manx children's book. Ronan and Kirree
visit their grandmother on the croft and the dog promptly
zooms off to tell all the animals the news. While he's doing
that, we also find out what all the animals say in Gaelic -
from the brown Highland cow and her calf, the duck and her
ducklings, the geese, the cockerel and the hens, the horse and
donkey to the bees and the cat and all the other animals on
the croft - even the whale. Yes, the whale says something in
Manx and if you didn't know that, here's your chance to find
out. 40 pages with 19 colourful and appealing illustrations.
The story was written in Scottish Gaelic to begin with and is
not a translation of an existing English book. As it's also
firmly set on the shores of the Western Ocean some place, it's
not only a children's book in Gaelic - it has a heart that is
Gaelach too. The horse is on the machair and there's a
distinct lack of trees, dogs called "Spot" or ducks called
"Jemima"!
There's also a recording of the story being told (see below)
and a small dictionary of the story for parents who aren't
quite fluent yet.