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Bodkin Beag and Bodkin Mòr : a traditional Gaelic tale

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  • Author: MacDonald, Emily
    Date:
    Created
    2020
    Summary:

    Bodkin Beag and Bodkin Mòr went out to pick nuts... but Bodkin Beag wouldn't stop eating them! Big Biorachan set out to teach his greedy friend a lesson, unleashing a chain of unintended consequences. This traditional Scottish Gaelic tale was once the most widely-known children's story in the Gaelic world. Gaels brought the tale with them from the Highlands of Scotland to Nova Scotia 200 years ago and passed it down in oral tradition. Gaelic artist Emily MacDonald's charming illustrations accompany the traditional text, reimagining the tale in 1800s Cape Breton.

    Genre:
    Myths and folk tales, Juvenile fiction
    Subject(s): Fairy Tales & Folklore | Folk literature, Scottish Gaelic
    Original Publisher: [Place of publication not identified], Bradan Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781988747699
    Collection(s)/Series: Atlantic Canadian: Read Atlantic 2021 | Atlantic Canadian: Read Atlantic