Everyone loves birthdays – especially Katie Morag. She loves making presents and she loves celebrating other people’s birthdays but, best of all, she loves her own birthday. Join Katie Morag at all the birthday parties on the Isle of Stuay. There’s a wonderful celebration for every month as well as a mouth watering recipe for a birthday cake and loads of ideas for making your won birthday cards.
Katie Morag is desperate for it to be her birthday, but as she soon discovers, there are plenty of other birthdays to be celebrated on Struay both before and after hers.
Mairi Hedderwick was born in Gourock, Scotland. At seventeen she took a job as a mother’s help on the Isle of Coll in the Hebrides, beginning a life-long love affair with islands and their small communities. Her children were brought up there and now some of her grandchildren. From being Grannie Island she has now moved on to being Granma Mainland, but her heart is always on the island. Mairi’s island world is delightfully reflected in the imaginary island of Struay where Katie Morag and her family live. As well as creating children’s books Mairi writes and illustrates travel books for adults. She spends a lot of time visiting schools and is always accompanied by Katie Morag’s teddy, which travels with her in a black bag.
