Six Dinner Sid: A Highland Adventure

Six Dinner Sid is back! And over ten years after his first public appearance he looks just as good as ever; he’s still living in six houses in Pythagoras Place and eating six dinners each day. His six owners are so devoted to Sid that when they find they all want to take holidays at the same time, they decide to rent six wooden cabins, side-by-side, in the Scottish Highlands so that Sid can come with them. When Sid makes friends with Jock, a Scottish wildcat, he lands in a few scrapes, but he soon proves himself a valiant defender of his friend when Jock is lifted aloft in the talons of a large mother eagle whose nest is threatened by the two cats. Of course, all ends well and Sid returns to the cabins for his six dinners. Or, will it be seven? A new family has just arrived…

Six Dinner Sid was a huge success when it was first published, and Sid is still making friends with new generations of children. He has lost none of his charm or slight air of bravado in the intervening years. Both text and illustration have a slightly old-fashioned air that make Sid and his families timeless, but there is nothing staid or dull here. Double page spreads and series of small vignettes bring freshness to each page opening. Sid is shown from different angles as he climbs, springs, bounds and clings to the eagle’s back, all intensifying involvement with the story. Please, let’s have more of Sid’s adventures!