Big Rory Returns to Market Square by Laurie Stanley-Blackwell, Karen Megronigle, Vivianne LaRivière

In this sequel to Big Rory of Market Square, storyteller extraordinaire Big Rory decides to come out of retirement and return to Market Square. He wants to continue the old Scottish tradition of telling stories until dawn.

 

In Big Rory Returns to Market Square, the old cat with a fondness for shortbreads shares some of his best stories, many of them based on local history and legend.

 

This book is filled with colour, character, and charm. Readers will be delighted by Big Rory’s encounters with Peter Fraser the Hermit, the Ghost Ship of the Northumberland Strait, a fairy hill in Antigonish, treasure-burying pirates on Caribou Island, the keeper of the Cape George lighthouse, the famed strong man of River John, Queen Victoria’s son, and the No. 2 Construction Battalion.

 

The book also features a recording of "Big Rory's Catwalk," music composed by Vivianne LaRivière, and an audio of the author, Laurie Stanley-Blackwell, reading this enchanting new book. And Karen Megronigle has illustrated this sequel with her wonderfully vivid artwork.