This is a brilliant and creative rendition in Scots by Matthew Fitt of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Matthew has previously translated titles such as Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone and various Roald Dahl and David Walliams titles.
The BBC One film, releasing on Christmas day will adapt Charlie's soothing drawings into full colour, giving a lovely new dimension to the story. The cast is set to include Tom Hollander as The Mole, Idris Elba as The Fox, Gabriel Byrne as The Horse and newcomer Jude Nicoll as The Boy.
Here, you will find them together in this book of Charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the Wild and exploring the thoughts and feelings that unite us all.
A book of hope for uncertain times.
Artist Charlie Mackesy has been a cartoonist for The Spectator and a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. He has collaborated with Richard Curtis for Comic Relief, and Nelson Mandela on a lithograph project, The Unity Series . His first exhibition for the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse was in London in November 2018. Charlie lives in South London with his dog.
Matthew Fitt was born in Dundee in 1968. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1990 and, between 1995 and 1997, held the Brownsbank Fellowship, residing alongside ghosts and wallydugs at the former home of Hugh MacDiarmid. Author of the scandalous Kate o Shanter's Tale, his poetry and short stories have been published widely. But n Ben A-Go-Go,his first novel, was selected as one of the Best Scottish Novels of All Time. He now divides his time between Scotland and the Czech Republic.
Title: The Laddie, the Mowdie, the Tod and the Cuddie: The Animatit Story
Author: Charlie Mackesy,Matthew Fitt
ISBN: 9781804250457
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Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-11-22
Number of Pages: 192
Weight: 0.7602 kg
'The warld I hae tae bide in is this ane, but the warld I grein tae stey in is the ane charlie mackesy has wrocht.' - Elizabeth Gilbert on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
'Love, freendship and kindness - this buik spikks a universal leid.' - Bear Grylls on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
'A wunnerfu wark o ert and a wunnerfu windae intae the human hert.' - Richard Curtis on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
'Simply, the warld needs charlie's wark richt noo.' - Miranda Hart on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
