Firkin & The Grey Gangsters

Author: Scott Moncrieff, Ann, Rojankovsky, Feodor

Children's, Teenage & educational

Published on 15 July 2021 by Scotland Street Press in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 170 pages, Line drawings, black and white
131 x 198 x 15 | 202g

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.