Overview
Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes. Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle against a horde of grey squirrelinvaders from America. The Sheep who wasn’t a Sheep and The White Drake get into the minds of other intelligent farm animals living in rural Scotland.
Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes.Firkin and the Grey Gangsters was in 1936 a metaphor for the fear of takeover by corporate America – Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle against a horde of grey squirrelinvaders from America. Firkin speaks in Scots.The Sheep who wasn’t a Sheep is about the thoughts going through the head of a sheep, swimmingbetween one Outer Isle and the other.The White Drake is a farmyard drake in Perthshire learning about flying.
- | Author: Ann Scott Moncrieff, Feodor Rojankovsky
- | Publisher: Scotland Street Press
- | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2021
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781910895153
- | ISBN-10: 1910895156