Awards

• Short-listed for Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards Medal 2020.
• Winner of Letterbox Library's Book of the Year 2019 (Books for Keeps 239).
• Winner of Nominated for the Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards Medal 2020.
• Winner of Selected for BookTrust's Books We Love: July 2019 feature.
• Winner of Selected for BookTrust's ""Books We Love: July 2019"" feature.
• Winner of Selected for the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (IBBY UK).

Overview

Norman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever to the British mainland. People had lived on these islands for over four thousand years, developing a thriving, tightly-knit society that knew nothing of crime or money, and took care of its weakest members without hesitation. At the mercy of the seasons and the elements, a unique lifestyle evolved, based around resilience, mutual trust and caring. What was it like to grow up in such harsh conditions? Why and how did this ancient way of life suddenly cease in 1930? Where did the islanders go, and what became of them? And what became of Norman John, child of St Kilda?

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Beth Waters is an author, illustrator and printmaker currently living in a tiny thatched cottage in Cambridge, UK. Originally from Yorkshire, she studied Literature at The University of Edinburgh. Deciding to combine her love of stories with her lifelong love of drawing, she went to Cambridge School of Art to do the MA in Children’s Book Illustration, where she began to learn the art of printmaking. Beth Waters is an author, illustrator and printmaker currently living in a tiny thatched cottage in Cambridge, UK. Originally from Yorkshire, she studied Literature at The University of Edinburgh. Deciding to combine her love of stories with her lifelong love of drawing, she went to Cambridge School of Art to do the MA in Children’s Book Illustration, where she began to learn the art of printmaking.

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