Wee Gillis
Author:
Munro Leaf
Illustrator:
Robert Lawson 
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Publication:
1938 by Viking Press Inc
Genre:
Fiction
Pages:
80
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Everyone knows that in Scotland there is a great difference between Highlanders and Lowlanders—that they do not see eye to eye on anything.
Wee Gillis's father's relations were all Highlanders, stalking stags, while his mother's relations were all Lowlanders, raising long-haired cows, and he had to make up his mind which he would be. The sturdy Scotch way in which he solved the problem provides Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, creators of Ferdinand, with a second perfect story in which they see eye to eye on everything.
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Munro Leaf
1905-1976American
Hundreds of thousands of copies of Manners Can Be Fun and Munro Leaf's other books have reached into every corner of America where children's b... See more
Robert Lawson
1892 - 1957American
Robert Lawson is a native New Yorker who has become an ardent country dweller. He has built a charming house a few miles from Westport, Connecticut,... See more
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Wee Gillis 
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Wee Gillis
Wee Gillis' father's people were Highlanders; his mother's people were Lowlanders, and he was faced with the problem of which he should be...
Wee Gillis
Reviewed by Sherry Early
The details are what make this picture book stand the test of time: a picture of Wee Gillis yelling through the fog, Wee Gillis’s absurdly long name, the alliterative fun of “calling cows” and “stalking stags”, and the tempestuous tantrum that Wee Gillis’s uncles throw when trying to persuade him to choose either the Highlands or the Lowlands for his home.
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