The Sleekit Mr Tod: Fantastic Mr Fox in Scots

James Robertson · Roald Dahl

2016年8月 · Black & White Publishing

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Weel, MA DEARIE, WHIT’LL
IT BE THIS TIME? A SONSIE
fat chookie fae Boggin? A DEUK or a
GOOSE fae Boonce? Or a
braw BUBBLY JOCK fae BEEK?

Mr Tod needs to feed his family, but fermers Boggin, Boonce and Beek are as grippy as ony men ye could meet. And so the scene is set for a muckle battle between the tremendous tods and the scunnersome fermers. Read James Robertson’s braw translation of Roald Dahl’s classic story to find out if the Sleekit Mr Tod is sleekit enough to escape their wrath.

作者简介

James Robertson (Author, Translator)
James Robertson is a co-founder of Itchy Coo. He writes books for both adults and children, in English and in Scots. His novel The Testament of Gideon Mack was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2006 and featured on the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2007. For Itchy Coo his translations include Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom, Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox and A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh.

Roald Dahl (Author)
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World’s No.1 storyteller.

Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Quentin Blake is one of Britain's most successful illustrators. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal and taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year's Honours.