ABC, My Grannie Caught a Flea: Scots Children's Songs and Rhymes

By Ewan McVicar

A collection of some of Scotland’s most imaginative, energetic, and playful songs and rhymes, both centuries-old and modern One of Scotland’s best-known storytellers introduces hundreds of hilarious, energetic, surreal, shocking, and nonsensical rhymes and songs from all over Scotland. Some date back hundreds of years, while others have been collected on the author’s personal visits to schools. The result is an entertaining anthology that also offers a fascinating insight into the minds of Scottish children over the years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Release date: Mar 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781495650000

Ewan McVicar

Ewan McVicar was born in Inverness. He worked as a banker in Scotland and Africa, then as a guitar teacher in the USA. On his return to Scotland, he was employed in various areas of social work before becoming a self-employed storyteller and songwriter. He has performed in over 200 schools and in castles, museums, folk festivals and other venues across Britain, as well as in Canada, the USA, Holland and Russia. He lives in Linlithgow.