A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand Wee
Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with
his mother's people in the lowlands, while the other half finds him in the
highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family are eager for him
to settle down and adopt their ways. In the lowlands, he is taught to herd
cattle, learning how to call them to him in even the heaviest of evening fogs.
In the rocky highlands, he stalks stags from outcrop to outcrop, holding his
breath so as not to