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''This article is about the children's books. For the Television programme see'' Katie Morag (TV series) Katie Morag is the title character of a series of children's picture books written and illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick. The gentle stories have been praised for their good humour, strong sense of place, and the feisty and independent (sometimes even "thrawn" 〔(Katie Morag - Teacher's notes ), Random House UK〕) character of Katie herself. The books are set on the fictional Isle of Struay, off the west coast of Scotland. Katie Morag lives close to the jetty above the island's only shop, where her mother is the postmistress and her father runs the general store. ==Katie Morag series== Much of the topography, and also characters and situations, are inspired by Arinagour on the Scottish island of Coll in the Inner Hebrides, the island where Mairi Hedderwick lived for a number of years,〔(Random House - Mairi Hedderwick )〕〔(Coming home to Coll ), ''Scots Heritage'' magazine, 24 July 2008 (via archive.org)〕〔On the other hand, when Mairi Hedderwick created a complete map of Struay in 1996 for ''The Big Katie Morag Storybook'', she included features based on favourite places from all over the neighbouring islands and mainland: – Mairi Hedderwick, (The Isle of Coll & the Isle of Struay: The Fact & the Fiction ), previously on the ''visitcoll.co.uk'' website, archived in June 2008 by ''archive.org''〕〔Louise Scollay, (Tales of eccentricity from author evoke laughter at book festival ), ''Shetland Times'', 11 September 2009. (Fourth story down).〕 and where her daughter still runs a handmade pottery store.〔(Artisans on the Isle of Coll ), VisitColl.co.uk. Isle of Coll Ceramics is directly at the end of the pier on arrival.〕 In the books the small island community is connected to the mainland by a ferry which initially only comes once a week, on "Boat Day" (later three times a week, after the building of a new pier in the fifth book). A key character in the books is Katie Morag's "Grannie Island", who lives further round the bay, and is generally found in her dungarees often driving or fixing her tractor, or surrounded by cats around her Rayburn stove, in contrast to Katie Morag's altogether more douce "Granma Mainland". Grannie Island was widely hailed, as for example "a positive image, a celebration of the strength of women, and a challenge to gender stereotyping"〔Bob Waugh, (Letter: Multiracism in the Isles ), ''The Herald'', 19 March 1993〕 – a happy accident, as Hedderwick had originally planned for the character to be male, until her North American publisher demurred;〔Vicky Allan, Interview: Katie Morag: the red-haired girl who became a 'monster' ''Sunday Herald'', 7 May 2006 Gerard Burke, Why Katie Morag's grannie had to have a sex-change, ''Daily Mail'', 19 July 1999 Stephen Fraser, Katie Morag gets politically correct, ''Scotland on Sunday'', 18 July 1999. Accessed via NewsBank〕 but not inappropriate, as Hedderwick was as likely as not herself to be found behind the wheel of her old tractor at the time.〔〔Anne Johnstone, (That's what Katie Morag does next ), ''The Herald'', 3 July 1993〕 In England a short National Curriculum Key Stage 1 Geography unit for six- and seven-year-olds, called "An island home", has been linked to the series and in particular the book ''Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers''.〔(QCA Geography Year 2 Unit 3: An Island Home ), Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, 2000. As of January 2011, a Google search for (KS1+"Katie+Morag"+"An+Island+Home" ) finds almost 3,400 hits〕 The book ''Katie Morag and the New Pier'' has also been used as a peg to discuss how communities can gain and lose from change.〔(Changing Lives ), Education 4 Sustainability, National Grid for Learning, 1997. (Resource originally developed by waste-management company Biffa).〕 The most recent book in the series, ''Katie Morag and the Dancing Class'', was a nominee for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2008,〔(The CILIP Kate Greenway Medal: Nominations for 2008 )〕 which is awarded for an outstanding work of illustration in children's literature. A number of books in the series have been translated into Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Japanese, as well as Scottish Gaelic.〔(Mairi Hedderwick biography ), The Illustration Cupboard〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Katie Morag」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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