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PICTURE BOOKS

Leaf, Munro

Wee Gillis

88 pp. | NYRB | June, 2006 | Trade ISBN 1-59017-206-X $14.95
Reissue (1938, Viking)

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Robert Lawson. This Caldecott Honor book tells the story of orphan Wee Gillis, who shunts between his mother's relatives in Scotland's lowlands and his father's Highlander relations. When the day for choosing where he'll spend the rest of his life arrives, Wee Gillis comes up with a clever solution that keeps everybody happy. Lawson's pen-and-ink drawings bring the story to exuberant life.

Reviewer: Terri Schmitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2038