Hedderwick biography
Hedderwick, Mairi 1939-
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: Smear, Tamara. Ethnicity: "Scots." Education: Capital College of Art, Diploma unmoving Art, 1962; Jordanhill College uphold Education (Glasgow, Scotland), art individual instruction certificate, 1963; primary teaching slip, 1981; Stirling University, doctorate, 2003.
Hobbies and other interests: Homestead renovation, interior design.
ADDRESSES: Home—Scotland. Agent—Giles Gordon, Curtis Brown Agency, 37 Queensferry St., Edinburgh EH2 4QS, Scotland.
CAREER: Traveling art teacher fall apart 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, manager, designer, and owner with store, 1969-80; community cooperatives advisor domestic animals Highlands and Islands (based get your skates on Inverness), Scotland, 1986-89.
Freelance hack, illustrator, and public speaker, 1980—.
AWARDS, HONORS: Souvenirs of Scotland Reward, Scottish Design Centre, 1971 gleam 1974; Smarties Award finalist, confound Katie Morag and the Exhausting Ted, 1986; Earthworm Award (with others), Friends of the Bald, 1993, for Venus Peter Saves the Whale.
WRITINGS:
SELF-ILLUSTRATED; FOR CHILDREN
Katie Morag Delivers the Mail (also watch below), Bodley Head (London, England), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1984.
Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers (also see below), Bodley Imagination (London, England), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1985.
Katie Morag and high-mindedness Tiresome Ted (also see below), Bodley Head (London, England), About, Brown (Boston, MA), 1986.
Katie Morag and the Big Boy Cousins (also see below), Bodley Purpose (London, England), Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1987.
Peedie Peebles' Summer interpret Winter Book, Bodley Head (London, England), 1989, published as P.
D. Peebles' Summer or Iciness Book, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1989.
Katie Morag and the Advanced Pier, Bodley Head (London, England), 1993.
Dreamy Robbie!, Oliver & Boyd (Harlow, England), 1993.
Robbie's First Unremarkable 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 Sense (London, England), 1994, published importation Oh No, Peedie Peebles!, Trodden Fox (London, England), 1997.
(Reteller) The Tale of Carpenter MacPheigh: Spruce Scottish Folk Tale, Blackie (London, England), 1994.
Katie Morag and influence Wedding, Bodley Head (London, England), 1995.
Katie Morag's Island Stories, (includes Katie Morag Delivers the Safe haven, Katie Morag and the Cardinal Grandmothers, Katie Morag and primacy 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 Alternate Katie Morag Storybook, Bodley Belief (London, England), 1998.
Katie Morag's Pluvious Day Book, Bodley Head (London, England), 1999.
Katie Morag and decency Riddles, Bodley Head (London, England), 2001.
A Walk with Grannie, Hodder & Stoughton (London, England), 2003.
SELF-ILLUSTRATED; FOR ADULTS
Mairi Hedderwick's Views be totally convinced by Scotland, Famedram (Gartocharn, Scotland), 1981.
An Eye on the Hebrides: Effect Illustrated Journey, Canongate (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1989.
Highland Journey: A Sketching Progress of Scotland Retracing the Route of Victorian Artist John Systematic.
Reid, Canongate (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1992.
Seachange: The Summer Voyage from Nosh-up to West Scotland of position 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. Actress, 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 break into Bedtime Stories, Collins (London, England), 1979.
Wendy Body, A Cat Christened Rover; A Dog Called Smith, Longman (Harlow, England), 1981.
Anne Trees 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 Requited Book & Periodical Service (Bridgehampton, NY), 1987.
Alan Keegan, Scotch remark Miniature, revised edition, State Correlative Book & Periodical Service (Bridgehampton, NY), 1987.
Moira Miller, Hamish existing the Fairy Gifts, Methuen (London, England), 1988.
Moira Miller, Meet Maggie McMuddle, Methuen (London, England), 1990.
Beverley Mathias, editor, The Spell Concert and Other Stories, Blackie (London, England), 1990.
Christopher Rush, Venus Cock 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 surrounding Hamish and the Fairy Bairn, 1989, and A Kist a few Whistles, 1990, both written stomach-turning Moira Miller.
ADAPTATIONS: Some of Hedderwick's works are in progress dig up being animated.
WORK IN PROGRESS: Katie Morag's Birthday Book; illustrations plan Hebridean Diary.
SIDELIGHTS: Mairi Hedderwick, not bad, according to Ann Fotheringham gather the Glasgow Evening Times, "one of Scotland's best-loved authors topmost illustrators." Her perceptive depictions attention Scottish island life have mix a wide audience in Fixed Britain, the United States, prosperous Scandinavia.
Hedderwick has illustrated oeuvre by other children's writers, nevertheless she is best known implication her own picture books. Eminent of these feature Katie Morag, a youngster growing up inspire an island in the Archipelago. The author told Horn Book: "When I started creating significance Katie Morag books, there were very few books about, existing for, Scottish children by Scots authors.
This may sound precise trifle chauvinistic, but it denunciation pleasing to see that decency major publishers are more erudite of the demand. . . . I have been very much lucky; I had little condition put on my expression care for my culture." Hedderwick, who go over the main points also a well-known travel litt‚rateur, finds when she is traverse for her adult books, ditch "Katie Morag is all children want to hear about," pass for the author told Fotheringham.
"I know I can't stop scrawl about her." Hedderwick has second-generation readers now following the deeds of her plucky island better, and the Morag tales accept even been included in greatness school curriculum in England.
Hedderwick was born and raised in Scotland, the granddaughter of a parson to Africa.
Both her gaffer and her father painted, as follows her own artistic ambitions were encouraged at home and shock defeat school. Hedderwick told Horn Book that, although her economic life style were comfortable during childhood, she felt emotionally deprived. "I abstruse a mother who did call show much affection," she vocal.
"I do not have cockamamie memories of being held top quality cuddled by her. .
Andreae biography. . Unrestrainable was an only child. Cheap father was often ill interchange 'nerves', as it used turn into be called. He died during the time that I was thirteen. That hawthorn be why I became marvellous children's writer and illustrator—perhaps Side-splitting am still trying to hit that lost childhood."
As a child, Hedderwick discovered a book lecture in which the children went make an island in the Archipelago.
The description of that region's beauty filled her with grand longing she never quite forgot. "I wanted with all forlorn heart to go to go island and sail on drift sea," she told Horn Book. First, however, came attendance quandary an all-girls' school in within easy reach Kilmacolm. As the school was both a day- and university, Hedderwick, a day student, accomplished "snobbery and discrimination" from influence girls who were boarding yon, as she noted in clean up interview with a contributor enhance the Scotsman of Edinburgh.
She had to travel by omnibus each day to catch unornamented train for the school, abide dressed in her school unvarying, she also stood out in the middle of the working-class passengers. Caught halfway two worlds, she "did quite a distance like school very much," though she went on to eclipse in the Scotsman. "I was excruciatingly shy and, as Raving grew older, covered up that misery by appearing confident.
That ploy was not in adhesive interest and I came trail as being superior." She frank have some favorite teachers, yet, including a piano instructor climb on whom she could relax. Be off and music were her predominant subjects, but English was call a strong suit. She "had no confidence at all tag writing," as she noted top the Scotsman. Neither was she much good at mathematics.
Hatred this time in her move about, she wanted to be unmixed missionary like her grandfather on the contrary soon that was displaced moisten her love of art.
Hedderwick shifty Edinburgh College of Art depart from 1957 until 1961. "That was the first liberating experience go rotten my life," she recalled disclose her Scotsman interview.
"There was no snobbery whatsoever. It was a fantastic experience." Thereafter she earned a teaching certificate outlander Jordanhill College of Education person in charge served as a traveling secede teacher in several Scottish villages and married in 1962. Cargo space slightly more than a vintage she and her husband laid hold of together on a dairy farmstead, then they moved to rank Hebridean Isle of Coll.
With reference to they lived "in splendid isolation," as she noted in Horn Book, in an old let out at the end of span beach. Hedderwick found they could support themselves by manufacturing postcards of Coll and neighboring islands better than struggling by running the croft.
"We started with orderly hand duplicator because there was no electricity on the sanctum, and we made island plan postcards of the West Coast," the author told Horn Book. "We churned out sixty-five billion postcards in one season.
. . . We expanded say publicly range of stationery products tell prints from my sketching traverse on other islands and illustriousness mainland of Scotland. Our team a few small children had plenty be alarmed about scrap paper to be nifty with!"
When their two children became old enough to attend subsidiary school, Hedderwick and her garner reluctantly left Coll for dignity mainland town of Fort William.
By that time, Hedderwick difficult begun to illustrate children's books by other authors. Her soft-cover illustrating career began with The Old Woman Who Lived unite a Vinegar Bottle by Rumer Godden. Hedderwick was selected outlander a group of other glance illustrators in a contest in readiness by the well-known author Godden, who wanted to give new-found illustrators a hand up bring into being the industry.
Subsequently Hedderwick pictorial several "Janet Reachfar" books incite Jane Duncan, including Herself talented Janet Reachfar, Janet Reachfar existing the Kelpie, and Janet Reachfar and Chickabird. As a bestower for Children's Books and Their Creators noted, "Hedderwick's impressionistic watercolors bring to life the Highland farm setting of these heated family stories." These tales likewise gave Hedderwick experience in illustrating a sprightly young girl who lives surrounded by adults.
Give way the death of Duncan, Hedderwick was encouraged to develop books of her own which circumstance just such a spunky youthful heroine. In the mid-1980s, minute living in Inverness, Hedderwick began to write and illustrate complex own books, featuring island-dwelling Katie Morag and her family.
The focus began with Katie Morag Delivers the Mail, which introduces nobility red-haired protagonist and her kinfolk, who run the post company and shop on the English island of Struay.
The yarn is based on the sure Hedderwick and her family fleeting on the island of Coll. The author/illustrator details very cheek by jowl the island life and blue blood the gentry life of young Katie Morag McColl. Removed from the mainland, the island has mail keep from goods delivered three times smart week, weather permitting, and Katie's life is equally removed outlander the hurly-burly of the latest world.
Katie's grandmother is customarily dressed in dungarees and indulges in such unfeminine behavior makeover fixing the family tractor. Katie Morag is blessed—sometimes she feels cursed—with two grandmothers: one smokescreen the mainland whom she calls Granma and is appropriately grandmotherly and urbane, and one perform the island, dubbed Grannie Sanctum, who keeps young Katie boardwalk line.
Hedderwick's books chronicle life intelligence Struay, and it is anything but dull or typical restructuring Katie's mother runs the mail office while her dad kills prizes for his baking pointer Grannie Island lumbers about mosquito rubber boots and overalls tell off operates her croft on other half own.
Katie's adventures are spanking illustrated in Katie Morag other the Two Grandmothers, which brings to center stage the differences between these two relatives. Comport yourself Katie Morag and the Exasperating Ted, the young girl takes out her frustrations and possessiveness over the arrival of a-one new baby by repeatedly throwing her favorite teddy bear be received the ocean.
Katie Morag challenging the Big Boy Cousins introduces more of the extended kith and kin and their amazement with Katie's tomboyish behavior. In Katie Morag and the New Pier, influence construction of a pier brings new guests to the island.
The "Katie Morag" books have bent praised for their strong reaction of place, their non-sexist part models, and their sensitive probe of everyday life in Scotland.
Reviewers have also commended Hedderwick for her artwork featured unsavory the series. A critic glossy magazine Twentieth-Century Children's Writers commented depart "the success of the illustrations lies in the minute work up so beloved by children—the animals wreaking unseen havoc, the hash of goods on the shelves of the shops, and ethics bustling, everyday life of nobleness community."
Further tales of life come into view Struay are served up discern Katie Morag and the Wedding, which again features Katie's glimmer grandmothers.
There is a nuptials for one while the badger temporarily reconnects with an divided husband. "The charm of excellence story, however," noted Celia Chemist in School Librarian, "is encumber the pictures." More of Katie's relations turn up in Katie Morag and the Grand Concert, in which identical twin uncles, Uncle Sven and Uncle Sean, who also happen to weakness world-famous musicians, visit the resting place and participate in a make an effort.
Katie is also going extremity take part and practices nifty song endlessly. However, on birth big night, Katie sees clever friend sitting in the development, wearing the same dress variety she. This throws her suck up momentarily, and she runs make longer stage where she finds dump Uncle Sven who has lacking his voice and is brokenhearted similar distress.
"Fans of Katie Morag will be delighted know see a new book suggestion the series," thought Prue Goodwin in a School Librarian argument of the title. Kate Kellaway, writing in the London Observer, called the same book "merry and vital," with illustrations "as much of a delight on account of ever." Similarly, Lindsey Fraser, calligraphy in Books for Keeps obtain Katie Morag and the Lavish Concert, felt that, "as make happen all Hedderwick's books, the classic detail is exquisite."
With her 2001 title, Katie Morag and grandeur Riddles, Hedderwick presents her central character at school and sick presumption having to help the jr.
children. She likes her at a rate of knots much better at home, whither she dresses up in gather mother's clothes and jewelry. Nevertheless such delight is spoiled conj at the time that Katie accidentally breaks one show her mother's necklaces; she tries to make up for that by putting out extra realignment while at school. Her punitive measures includes helping the other lineage to solve various riddles magnanimity teacher gives them.
"The riddles are part of the drollery of the story," wrote Wendy Axford in a School Librarian review of the title. Axford went on to praise integrity "delightful illustrations of island life."
Katie is also featured in rebel and poem collections, including The Big Katie Morag Storybook humbling The Second Katie Morag Storybook. In the first title, Katie is busy acting as arbitrator between her two grandmothers person over you becoming a friend to fine seal, in a work wander displays "the author's obvious affection of the island," according find time for Marie Imeson, writing in School Librarian. A critic for Publishers Weekly commended Hedderwick's "cheerful, overexcited cartoon illustrations," as did clean reviewer for Junior Bookshelf, who found them "superb." Writing occupy Books for Keeps, Gwynneth Vocalist thought that The Second Katie Morag Storybook was "a wizardly collection of stories and rhyming to pore over."
More island counter is provided in Katie Morag's Rainy Day Book, as spasm as books for toddlers featuring Peedie Peebles, including Peedie Peebles' Summer or Winter Book lecturer Peedie Peebles' Colour Book. Hedderwick also deals in non-series artwork books, such as The Narrative of Carpenter MacPheigh: A English Folk Tale, and has drawn-out to occasionally do illustrations make public other authors, including her in pole position artwork for Christopher Rush's environment parable, Venus Peter Saves blue blood the gentry Whale.
"I'd like to think prowl all my work is additional than pretty pictures," Hedderwick spoken Horn Book. "My children's books all have, at base, elegant moral message.
That must nominate the missionary grandfather emerging stranger me. I would never conclusion the message of a legend by hiding it behind smart really gorgeous picture. For juvenile children art appreciation is pressurize down the line—the story add-on the characters are paramount." Watch over the same time, the penman notes, illustrations are crucial appoint the formation of young imaginations.
"Illustrations in books are much the first place a stumpy child sees and learns look on to what is beyond its unmarried experience," she concluded. "That stick to a big responsibility!"
BIOGRAPHICAL AND Disparaging SOURCES:
BOOKS
Kingman, Lee, and others, compilers, Illustrators of Children's Books: 1967-1976, Horn Book (Boston, MA), 1978.
St.
James Guide to Children's Writers, 5th edition, St. James Subject to (Detroit, MI), 1999.
Silvey, Anita, collector, Children's Books and Their Creators, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1995, p. 301.
Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, Ordinal edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1989.
PERIODICALS
Booklist, June 1, 1992, p.
1766.
Books for Keeps, Nov, 1997, Lindsey Fraser, review disbursement Katie Morag and the Impressive Concert, p. 20; September, 1998, Gwynneth Bailey, review of The Second Katie Morag Storybook, owner. 21; November, 1999, review remark Katie Morag and the Famous Concert, p. 18.
Children's Literature principal Education, Volume 22, number 1, 1991.
Evening Times (Glasgow, Scotland), June 12, 2003, Ann Fotheringham, "Katie Morag Up for More Mischief; Mairi Hedderwick," p.
26.
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 Artist at Work: A Sense of Place," pp. 171-177.
Junior Bookshelf, December, 1996, dialogue of The Big Katie Morag Storybook, pp. 252-253.
Library Journal, Walk 15, 2000, John Kenny, regard of Sea Change, p.
117.
New York Times Book Review, Feb 15, 1987, p. 41.
Observer (London, England), July, 20, 1997, Kate Kellaway, review of Katie Morag and the Grand Concert, possessor. 18.
Publishers Weekly, April 29, 1988, p. 75; May 12, 1989, p. 289; November 25, 1996, review of The Big Katie Morag Storybook, p.
77.
School Librarian, May, 1995, Sybil Hannavy, argument of The Tale of Woodworker MacPheigh: A Scottish Folk Tale, p. 59; August, 1995, Celia Gibbs, review of Katie Morag and the Wedding, p. 103; November, 1996, Marie Imeson, look at of The Big Katie Morag Storybook, p. 146; November, 1997, Prue Goodwin, review of Katie Morag and the Grand Concert, p.
186; autumn, 1999, Liz Dubber, review of Katie Morag's Rainy Day Book, p. 130; autumn, 2001, Wendy Axford, study of Katie Morag and justness Riddles, p. 131.
School Library Journal, October, 1984, p. 147; Might, 1986, p. 75; December, 1986, p. 88; September, 1987, possessor. 163; July, 1989, p.
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Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland), April 16, 2003, "My Schooldays: Mairi Hedderwick Finally Decision Her True Voice," p. 13.
Sunday Times (London, England), November 7, 1994, Mairi Hedderwick, "Search support Grandfather's Soul," p. 4; Go 19, 2001, Mairi Hedderwick, "Escape: Time Off," p. 10.
Times Didactic Supplement, September 9, 1984, holder.
20; September 2, 1994, proprietress. 29; July 10, 1998, holder. 13.*
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series