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So I've uploaded a first stab at an article [1]; but it could probably use some expansion and straightening out. The article on Paddington Bear might be a good model. In particular I don't seem to have done a very good job of communicating just what it is that has made the Katie Morag books so appealing and so attractive to children for 25 years now.

Anything along those lines needs to be properly sourced rather than original research, but some additional sources that may help:

More snippets:

  • Paragraph on the books by Maureen A. Farrell, writing on "The Lost Boys and Girls of Scottish Childrens Fiction" in Murray Pittock (ed.), Modern transformations, new identities from 1918, p. 206. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Unfortunately most other reviews from what WP would consider reliable sources seem mostly just to be two or three line recommendations in the course of a busy newspaper articles; but if people find some more extensive ones, it would be good to have a note of them. Jheald (talk) 16:49, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK text

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Looks like I chose the wrong "hook" text for DYK (only 1600 page views; and only 757 for Mairi Hedderwick – a good DYK should get anything of the order of 4000) - cf DYK Archive.

Probably should have gone for something like

"... that the Katie Morag stories by Mairi Hedderwick are in part inspired by her life on the Isle of Coll in the Inner Hebrides ?",

more open, and giving less away up-front; and perhaps Scottish islands are a more seductive association. Also it would have been closer to the spine of both articles, so maybe fairer. Oh well, live and learn. Jheald (talk) 12:01, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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