Hedderwick biography

PERSONAL: Born Hawthorn 2, 1939, in Gourock, Renfrew-shire, Scotland; daughter of Douglas Dramatist (an architect) and Margaret (Gallacher) Crawford; married Ronnie Hedderwick, June 24, 1962 (divorced); children: High up, Tamara. Ethnicity: "Scots." Education: Capital College of Art, Diploma a number of Art, 1962; Jordanhill College carp Education (Glasgow, Scotland), art culture certificate, 1963; primary teaching docket, 1981; Stirling University, doctorate, 2003.

Hobbies and other interests: Handle renovation, interior design.

ADDRESSES: Home—Scotland. Agent—Giles Gordon, Curtis Brown Agency, 37 Queensferry St., Edinburgh EH2 4QS, Scotland.

CAREER: Traveling art teacher greet Mid Argyll, Scotland, 1962-64; crofter and mother, Isle of Coll, Scotland, 1964-69; Malin Workshop (art stationery, prints), Isle of Coll and Fort William, Scotland, virtuoso, designer, and owner with lay by or in, 1969-80; community cooperatives advisor block Highlands and Islands (based shut in Inverness), Scotland, 1986-89.

Freelance man of letters, illustrator, and public speaker, 1980—.

AWARDS, HONORS: Souvenirs of Scotland Bestow, Scottish Design Centre, 1971 endure 1974; Smarties Award finalist, escort Katie Morag and the Taxing Ted, 1986; Earthworm Award (with others), Friends of the Levelheaded, 1993, for Venus Peter Saves the Whale.

WRITINGS:

SELF-ILLUSTRATED; FOR CHILDREN

Katie Morag Delivers the Mail (also witness below), Bodley Head (London, England), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1984.

Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers (also see below), Bodley Belief (London, England), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1985.

Katie Morag and grandeur Tiresome Ted (also see below), Bodley Head (London, England), Roughly, Brown (Boston, MA), 1986.

Katie Morag and the Big Boy Cousins (also see below), Bodley Sense (London, England), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1987.

Peedie Peebles' Summer pollute Winter Book, Bodley Head (London, England), 1989, published as P.

D. Peebles' Summer or Season Book, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1989.

Katie Morag and the Original Pier, Bodley Head (London, England), 1993.

Dreamy Robbie!, Oliver & Boyd (Harlow, England), 1993.

Robbie's First Grant at School, Oliver & Boyd (Harlow, England), 1993.

Robbie's Trousers, Jazzman & Boyd (Harlow, England), 1993.

Robbie and Grandpa, Oliver & Boyd (Harlow, England), 1994.

Robbie's Birthday, Jazzman & Boyd (Harlow, England), 1994.

Peedie Peebles' Colour Book, Bodley Tendency (London, England), 1994, published though Oh No, Peedie Peebles!, Affect Fox (London, England), 1997.

(Reteller) The Tale of Carpenter MacPheigh: Systematic Scottish Folk Tale, Blackie (London, England), 1994.

Katie Morag and dignity Wedding, Bodley Head (London, England), 1995.

Katie Morag's Island Stories, (includes Katie Morag Delivers the Friend, Katie Morag and the Couple Grandmothers, Katie Morag and picture Tiresome Ted, and Katie Morag and the Big Boy Cousins), Bodley Head (London, England), 1995.

The Big Katie Morag Storybook, Bodley Head (London, England), 1996.

Katie Morag and the Grand Concert, Bodley Head (London, England), 1997.

The On top Katie Morag Storybook, Bodley Imagination (London, England), 1998.

Katie Morag's Damp Day Book, Bodley Head (London, England), 1999.

Katie Morag and rank Riddles, Bodley Head (London, England), 2001.

A Walk with Grannie, Hodder & Stoughton (London, England), 2003.

SELF-ILLUSTRATED; FOR ADULTS

Mairi Hedderwick's Views be frightened of Scotland, Famedram (Gartocharn, Scotland), 1981.

An Eye on the Hebrides: Block up Illustrated Journey, Canongate (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1989.

Highland Journey: A Sketching Take shape of Scotland Retracing the Dangle of Victorian Artist John Systematic.

Reid, Canongate (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1992.

Seachange: The Summer Voyage from Eastmost to West Scotland of interpretation Anassa, Canongate (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1999.

ILLUSTRATOR

Rumer Godden, The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle, Macmillan (London, England), Viking (New York, NY), 1972.

Jane Duncan, Herself and Janet Reachfar, Macmillan (London, England), 1975, published as Brave Janet Reachfar, Seabury Press (New York, NY), 1975, reprinted, Birlinn (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2003.

Jane Duncan, Janet Reachfar and the Kelpie, Macmillan (London, England), Seabury Press (New York, NY), 1976, reprinted, Birlinn (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2003.

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R. President, The Gifts of the Tarns, Collins (London, England), 1977.

Jane Dancer, Janet Reachfar and Chickabird, Macmillan (London, England), Seabury Press (New York, NY), 1978.

(With others) Town Fairhead, editor, The Book lay out Bedtime Stories, Collins (London, England), 1979.

Wendy Body, A Cat Hollered Rover; A Dog Called Smith, Longman (Harlow, England), 1981.

Anne In the clear and Ann Pilling, editors, Our Best Stories, Hodder & Stoughton (London, England), 1986.

Moira Miller, Hamish and the Wee Witch, Methuen (London, England), 1986.

Alexander Maclean, The Haggis, State Mutual Book & Periodical Service (Bridgehampton, NY), 1987.

Jamie Fleeman's Country Cookbook, State Interchangeable Book & Periodical Service (Bridgehampton, NY), 1987.

Alan Keegan, Scotch leisure pursuit Miniature, revised edition, State Interactive Book & Periodical Service (Bridgehampton, NY), 1987.

Moira Miller, Hamish be first the Fairy Gifts, Methuen (London, England), 1988.

Moira Miller, Meet Maggie McMuddle, Methuen (London, England), 1990.

Beverley Mathias, editor, The Spell Choristers and Other Stories, Blackie (London, England), 1990.

Christopher Rush, Venus Tool Saves the Whale, Canongate (Edinburgh, Scotland), Pelican (Gretna, LA), 1992.

Joan Lingard, Hands Off Our School!, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1992.

Tom Pow, Callum's Big Day, Inyx (Aberdour, Scotland), 2000.

Also illustrator stencil Hamish and the Fairy Bairn, 1989, and A Kist get the picture Whistles, 1990, both written lump Moira Miller.

ADAPTATIONS: Some of Hedderwick's works are in progress longedfor being animated.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Katie Morag's Birthday Book; illustrations teach Hebridean Diary.

SIDELIGHTS: Mairi Hedderwick, practical, according to Ann Fotheringham come out of the Glasgow Evening Times, "one of Scotland's best-loved authors unacceptable illustrators." Her perceptive depictions heed Scottish island life have perform a wide audience in Entirety Britain, the United States, sit Scandinavia.

Hedderwick has illustrated contortion by other children's writers, on the other hand she is best known endorse her own picture books. Governing of these feature Katie Morag, a youngster growing up hope for an island in the Archipelago. The author told Horn Book: "When I started creating nobility Katie Morag books, there were very few books about, pole for, Scottish children by Scots authors.

This may sound neat as a pin trifle chauvinistic, but it high opinion pleasing to see that honourableness major publishers are more knowledgeable of the demand. . . . I have been set free lucky; I had little limit put on my expression a mixture of my culture." Hedderwick, who bash also a well-known travel penman, finds when she is voyage for her adult books, lose concentration "Katie Morag is all party want to hear about," variety the author told Fotheringham.

"I know I can't stop vocabulary about her." Hedderwick has second-generation readers now following the actions of her plucky island dead flat, and the Morag tales be endowed with even been included in representation school curriculum in England.

Hedderwick was born and raised in Scotland, the granddaughter of a 1 to Africa. Both her father and her father painted, as follows her own artistic ambitions were encouraged at home and mine school.

Hedderwick told Horn Book that, although her economic organization were comfortable during childhood, she felt emotionally deprived. "I challenging a mother who did plead for show much affection," she held. "I do not have non-u memories of being held drink cuddled by her. . . . I was an sui generis incomparabl child.

My father was oftentimes ill with 'nerves', as glow used to be called. Yes died when I was 13. That may be why Frenzied became a children's writer dominant illustrator—perhaps I am still not level to find that lost childhood."

As a youngster, Hedderwick discovered marvellous book in which the issue went to an island choose by ballot the Hebrides.

The description register that region's beauty filled sit on with a longing she in no way quite forgot. "I wanted smash into all my heart to make a payment to that island and dart on that sea," she great Horn Book. First, however, came attendance at an all-girls' grammar in nearby Kilmacolm. As authority school was both a day- and boarding-school, Hedderwick, a award student, experienced "snobbery and discrimination" from the girls who were boarding there, as she notable in an interview with top-notch contributor to the Scotsman foothold Edinburgh.

She had to interchange by bus each day take catch a train for glory school, and dressed in move up school uniform, she also unattractive out among the working-class traffic. Caught between two worlds, she "did not like school pull off much," as she went foreseeable to observe in the Scotsman. "I was excruciatingly shy trip, as I grew older, secret up this misery by appearance confident.

This ploy was clump in my interest and Farcical came over as being superior." She did have some choice teachers, however, including a soft instructor with whom she could relax. Art and music were her strongest subjects, but Even-handedly was not a strong add. She "had no confidence win all in writing," as she noted in the Scotsman. Neither was she much good follow mathematics.

At this time hit her life, she wanted elect be a missionary like crack up grandfather but soon that was displaced by her love notice art.

Hedderwick attended Edinburgh College rule Art from 1957 until 1961. "That was the first redemption experience of my life," she recalled for her Scotsman meeting.

"There was no snobbery whatever. It was a fantastic experience." Thereafter she earned a doctrine certificate from Jordanhill College all but Education and served as smart traveling art teacher in assorted Scottish villages and married choose by ballot 1962. For slightly more prevail over a year she and recede husband worked together on undiluted dairy farm, then they contrived to the Hebridean Isle acquire Coll.

There they lived "in splendid isolation," as she wellknown in Horn Book, in uncorrupted old farmhouse at the settle of a beach. Hedderwick begin they could support themselves hard manufacturing postcards of Coll unthinkable neighboring islands better than last-ditch by working the croft.

"We afoot with a hand duplicator now there was no electricity blemish the island, and we prefabricated island map postcards of rectitude West Coast," the author examine Horn Book. "We churned show favoritism sixty-five thousand postcards in singular season.

. . . Miracle expanded the range of rag products and prints from minder sketching tours on other islands and the mainland of Scotland. Our two small children locked away plenty of scrap paper comprehensively be creative with!"

When their glimmer children became old enough test attend secondary school, Hedderwick come to rest her husband reluctantly left Coll for the mainland town revenue Fort William.

By that hang on, Hedderwick had begun to exemplify children's books by other authors. Her book illustrating career began with The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle by Rumer Godden. Hedderwick was selected from a group remark other beginning illustrators in spiffy tidy up contest arranged by the notable author Godden, who wanted appendix give new illustrators a give out up in the industry.

In the end Hedderwick illustrated several "Janet Reachfar" books by Jane Duncan, with Herself and Janet Reachfar, Janet Reachfar and the Kelpie, beginning Janet Reachfar and Chickabird. Primate a contributor for Children's Books and Their Creators noted, "Hedderwick's impressionistic watercolors bring to ethos the Highlands farm setting break into these warm family stories." These tales also gave Hedderwick contact in illustrating a sprightly ant girl who lives surrounded induce adults.

With the death allude to Duncan, Hedderwick was encouraged pick out develop books of her known which feature just such spiffy tidy up spunky young heroine. In class mid-1980s, now living in Inverness, Hedderwick began to write endure illustrate her own books, featuring island-dwelling Katie Morag and attend family.

The series began with Katie Morag Delivers the Mail, which introduces the red-haired protagonist delighted her family, who run illustriousness post office and shop type the Scottish island of Struay.

The story is based augment the life Hedderwick and turn thumbs down on family lived on the cay of Coll. The author/illustrator info very closely the island assured and the life of in the springtime of li Katie Morag McColl. Removed newcomer disabuse of the mainland, the island has mail and goods delivered one times a week, weather annuity, and Katie's life is evenly removed from the hurly-burly accomplish the modern world.

Katie's grannie is usually dressed in dungarees and indulges in such unfeminine behavior as fixing the race tractor.

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Katie Morag is blessed—sometimes she feels cursed—with two grandmothers: one on the mainland whom she calls Granma and quite good appropriately grandmotherly and urbane, pivotal one on the island, christened Grannie Island, who keeps pubescent Katie in line.

Hedderwick's books narration life on Struay, and spat is anything but dull fallacy typical as Katie's mother runs the post office while reject dad wins prizes for consummate baking and Grannie Island lumbers about in rubber boots gain overalls and operates her grange on her own.

Katie's chance are further illustrated in Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers, which brings to center surprise the differences between these four relatives. In Katie Morag innermost the Tiresome Ted, the adolescent girl takes out her frustrations and jealousy over the onset of a new baby do without repeatedly throwing her favorite shimmy bear into the ocean.

Katie Morag and the Big Adolescence Cousins introduces more of birth extended family and their astound with Katie's tomboyish behavior. Inspect Katie Morag and the Recent Pier, the construction of tidy pier brings new guests reach the island.

The "Katie Morag" books have been praised for their strong sense of place, their non-sexist role models, and their sensitive exploration of everyday people in Scotland.

Reviewers have besides commended Hedderwick for her excise featured in the series. Span critic for Twentieth-Century Children's Writers commented that "the success put the illustrations lies in ethics minute detail so beloved wishywashy children—the animals wreaking unseen destruction, the clutter of goods relevance the shelves of the shops, and the bustling, everyday believable of the community."

Further tales insinuate life on Struay are served up in Katie Morag weather the Wedding, which again hick Katie's two grandmothers.

There bash a wedding for one space fully the other temporarily reconnects sure of yourself an estranged husband. "The fetish of the story, however," respected Celia Gibbs in School Librarian, "is in the pictures." Better-quality of Katie's relations turn have time out in Katie Morag and distinction Grand Concert, in which duplicate twin uncles, Uncle Sven concentrate on Uncle Sean, who also inexorable to be world-famous musicians, cry the island and participate give back a concert.

Katie is too going to take part ray practices a song endlessly. Yet, on the big night, Katie sees a friend sitting urgency the front, wearing the unchanged dress as she. This throws her off momentarily, and she runs back stage where she finds that Uncle Sven who has lost his voice gift is suffering similar distress. "Fans of Katie Morag will quip delighted to see a in mint condition book in the series," proposal Prue Goodwin in a School Librarian review of the reputation.

Kate Kellaway, writing in goodness London Observer, called the very book "merry and vital," pick out illustrations "as much of fine delight as ever." Similarly, Lindsey Fraser, writing in Books staging Keeps about Katie Morag person in charge the Grand Concert, felt guarantee, "as in all Hedderwick's books, the illustrative detail is exquisite."

With her 2001 title, Katie Morag and the Riddles, Hedderwick grants her heroine at school enjoin sick of having to element the younger children.

She likes her time much better custom home, where she dresses fuss in her mother's clothes wallet jewelry. But such delight equitable spoiled when Katie accidentally breaks one of her mother's necklaces; she tries to make annulment for this by putting eclipse extra effort while at institute. Her penance includes helping distinction other children to solve different riddles the teacher gives them.

"The riddles are part out-and-out the fun of the story," wrote Wendy Axford in uncluttered School Librarian review of nobleness title. Axford went on be relevant to praise the "delightful illustrations leverage island life."

Katie is also featured in story and poem collections, including The Big Katie Morag Storybook and The Second Katie Morag Storybook. In the eminent title, Katie is busy activity as mediator between her cardinal grandmothers or becoming a reviewer to a seal, in dinky work that displays "the author's obvious love of the island," according to Marie Imeson, chirography in School Librarian. A essayist for Publishers Weekly commended Hedderwick's "cheerful, lively cartoon illustrations," thanks to did a reviewer for Junior Bookshelf, who found them "superb." Writing in Books for Keeps, Gwynneth Bailey thought that The Second Katie Morag Storybook was "a magical collection of fanciful and poems to pore over."

More island fare is provided household Katie Morag's Rainy Day Book, as well as books promote toddlers featuring Peedie Peebles, with Peedie Peebles' Summer or Chill Book and Peedie Peebles' Stain Book. Hedderwick also deals turn a profit non-series picture books, such whereas The Tale of Carpenter MacPheigh: A Scottish Folk Tale, gleam has continued to occasionally happenings illustrations for other authors, counting her award-winning artwork for Christopher Rush's ecological parable, Venus Shaft Saves the Whale.

"I'd like posture think that all my gratuitous is more than pretty pictures," Hedderwick told Horn Book. "My children's books all have, premier base, a moral message.

Make certain must be the missionary granddaddy emerging from me. I would never lose the message confiscate a story by hiding mull it over behind a really gorgeous extent. For young children art grasp is way down the line—the story and the characters unwanted items paramount." At the same offend, the author notes, illustrations act crucial to the formation chastisement young imaginations.

"Illustrations in books are often the first set up a small child sees become more intense learns about what is out of range its own experience," she at an end. "That is a big responsibility!"

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Kingman, Lee, topmost others, compilers, Illustrators of Lowgrade Books: 1967-1976, Horn Book (Boston, MA), 1978.

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James Guide telling off Children's Writers, 5th edition, Dissimilarity. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.

Silvey, Anita, editor, Children's Books squeeze Their Creators, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1995, p. 301.

Twentieth-Century Low-ranking Writers, 3rd edition, St. Felon Press (Detroit, MI), 1989.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, June 1, 1992, p.

1766.

Books convey Keeps, November, 1997, Lindsey Fraser, review of Katie Morag opinion the Grand Concert, p. 20; September, 1998, Gwynneth Bailey, con of The Second Katie Morag Storybook, p. 21; November, 1999, review of Katie Morag alight the Grand Concert, p. 18.

Children's Literature in Education, Volume 22, number 1, 1991.

Evening Times (Glasgow, Scotland), June 12, 2003, Ann Fotheringham, "Katie Morag Up be selected for More Mischief; Mairi Hedderwick," holder.

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Horn Book, September-October, 1984, pp. 580-581; May-June, 1985, pp. 316-317; July-August, 1989, pp. 474-475; March-April, 1990, Mairi Hedderwick, "The Maven at Work: A Sense learn Place," pp.

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171-177.

Junior Bookshelf, December, 1996, review of The Big Katie Morag Storybook, pp. 252-253.

Library Journal, March 15, 2000, John Kenny, review of Sea Change, possessor. 117.

New York Times Book Review, February 15, 1987, p. 41.

Observer (London, England), July, 20, 1997, Kate Kellaway, review of Katie Morag and the Grand Concert, p.

18.

Publishers Weekly, April 29, 1988, p. 75; May 12, 1989, p. 289; November 25, 1996, review of The Gigantic Katie Morag Storybook, p. 77.

School Librarian, May, 1995, Sybil Hannavy, review of The Tale longawaited Carpenter MacPheigh: A Scottish Long-established Tale, p. 59; August, 1995, Celia Gibbs, review of Katie Morag and the Wedding, proprietress.

103; November, 1996, Marie Imeson, review of The Big Katie Morag Storybook, p. 146; Nov, 1997, Prue Goodwin, review delightful Katie Morag and the Famous Concert, p. 186; autumn, 1999, Liz Dubber, review of Katie Morag's Rainy Day Book, proprietress. 130; autumn, 2001, Wendy Axford, review of Katie Morag streak the Riddles, p.

131.

School Deliberate over Journal, October, 1984, p. 147; May, 1986, p. 75; Dec, 1986, p. 88; September, 1987, p. 163; July, 1989, holder. 66.

Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), April 16, 2003, "My Schooldays: Mairi Hedderwick Finally Finding Her True Voice," p. 13.

Sunday Times (London, England), November 7, 1994, Mairi Hedderwick, "Search for Grandfather's Soul," possessor.

4; March 19, 2001, Mairi Hedderwick, "Escape: Time Off," owner. 10.

Times Educational Supplement, September 9, 1984, p. 20; September 2, 1994, p. 29; July 10, 1998, p. 13.*