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Meg and Mog
Meg@@ Mog and Og
Meg, Mog and Owl make friends with a prehsitoric man and Og the woolly mammoth. Og is so keen on Meg's bubble and squeak that he follows her home for another trunkful.
The bestselling MEG AND MOG stories are perfect for sharing or reading alone. Children will love exploring colours, sounds and shapes.
"A brilliant coordination of text and pictures -Sunday Times
"A winning combination" - Time Out
The bestselling MEG AND MOG stories are perfect for sharing or reading alone. Children will love exploring colours, sounds and shapes.
"A brilliant coordination of text and pictures -Sunday Times
"A winning combination" - Time Out
32 pages, Paperback
First published September 4, 2003
About the author
Helen Nicoll
72 books21 followersHelen Nicoll was born in Natland, Westmorland, in 1937. She was educated at schools in Bristol; Dartington Hall, Devon; and Froebel Education Institute, London. Helen Nicoll married Robert Kime in 1970 and they have one daughter and one son.
Helen Nicoll was a television producer with the BBC for many years. It was here, as Producer of the children's educational series WATCH, that she first met Jan Pienkowski. After working together for four years, they decided it was time to preserve their creativity in book form for future generations of children to enjoy. The result is the immensely popular MEG AND MOG series.
In addition to the MEG AND MOG series, Helen has a long and varied association with Puffin - as editor of the Junior Puffin magazine THE EGG from 1977 - 1979, as compiler of the popular children's poetry anthology POEMS FOR SEVEN YEAR OLDS AND UNDER, illustrated by Michael Foreman, and through her partnership with Puffin, the enormously popular series of Puffin Cover to Cover story tapes of which Helen is the Producer.
Helen Nicoll was a television producer with the BBC for many years. It was here, as Producer of the children's educational series WATCH, that she first met Jan Pienkowski. After working together for four years, they decided it was time to preserve their creativity in book form for future generations of children to enjoy. The result is the immensely popular MEG AND MOG series.
In addition to the MEG AND MOG series, Helen has a long and varied association with Puffin - as editor of the Junior Puffin magazine THE EGG from 1977 - 1979, as compiler of the popular children's poetry anthology POEMS FOR SEVEN YEAR OLDS AND UNDER, illustrated by Michael Foreman, and through her partnership with Puffin, the enormously popular series of Puffin Cover to Cover story tapes of which Helen is the Producer.
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October 21, 2019
Meg, Mog and Owl find themselves tumbling through time in this sixteenth entry in the Meg and Mog picture-book series, winding up in a prehistoric cave when one of Meg's spells, intended to create more room - "Cabbage & onion / Cavern & canyon / Bucket & broom / A big new room" - goes horribly (and predictably) wrong. Here they meet a caveman named Crom, as well as Og, the wooly mammoth he has captured, and intends to eat. Fortunately, Meg has plenty of bubble and squeak on hand, and their new stone-age friends are convinced to try it, rather than each other. But life in a cave is cold (not to mention messy), so the witchy/feline/strigine trio soon return to the present, leaving Crom and Og behind. Or so it seems...
As with previous entries in this series, there is a great synergy here between Helen Nicoll's text, split between the straightforward narrative, and the exclamations and sound words contained in the speech bubbles, and Jan Pieńkowski's brightly-coloured artwork, which invariably accentuates the humour in each scene, and often adds a new dimension to the story itself. There's plenty of visual fun in Meg, Mog and Og, as the trio take cover from bats in the opening scene, or Meg turns a bright red, and tears out her hair in frustration, when their living quarters get a little small - an image that the reader is shown from above. There is also beauty, as in the scene in which the characters are all depicted in silhouette - one of Pieńkowski's trademark styles - against receding circles of black, purple, blue and snowy-gray, together meant to represent the cave in which they are living. My favorite touch, though, would undoubtedly be the next-to-last page, which shows a hungry Og's red trunk reaching through the window, seemingly in search of some bubble and squeak, as Meg and Mog snore away, and Owl suspiciously keeps one eye open. Humorous and entertaining, this book will keep young readers involved through both story and art, and is recommended to younger children who enjoy witchy fare, or who are fans of these characters.
As with previous entries in this series, there is a great synergy here between Helen Nicoll's text, split between the straightforward narrative, and the exclamations and sound words contained in the speech bubbles, and Jan Pieńkowski's brightly-coloured artwork, which invariably accentuates the humour in each scene, and often adds a new dimension to the story itself. There's plenty of visual fun in Meg, Mog and Og, as the trio take cover from bats in the opening scene, or Meg turns a bright red, and tears out her hair in frustration, when their living quarters get a little small - an image that the reader is shown from above. There is also beauty, as in the scene in which the characters are all depicted in silhouette - one of Pieńkowski's trademark styles - against receding circles of black, purple, blue and snowy-gray, together meant to represent the cave in which they are living. My favorite touch, though, would undoubtedly be the next-to-last page, which shows a hungry Og's red trunk reaching through the window, seemingly in search of some bubble and squeak, as Meg and Mog snore away, and Owl suspiciously keeps one eye open. Humorous and entertaining, this book will keep young readers involved through both story and art, and is recommended to younger children who enjoy witchy fare, or who are fans of these characters.
September 16, 2021
Meg the witch, was making bubble and squeak in her caldron while Mog the cat and Owl were having a bat hunt. A bat fell into the caldron and it made Meg realise that she needed some more room so she cast a spell to that effect.
But the unexpected happened, the three of them, complete with caldron and broomstick, fell into a cold, damp cave. There they met Crom, a caveman, and Og his trusty woolly mammoth. Crom wanted to eat and suggested that Og might make a nice meal.
Meg would not hear of it and she shared her bubble and squeak with Crom and Og. As the days wore on she made other meals and Crom and Og enjoyed them all just as much as Meg and Owl did but Meg was getting too cold in the cave.
Her solution was to jump on her broomstick with Mog and Owl and fly home to the warmth of her bed. Once there her and Mog were soon sound asleep with Owl watching on. Owl heard a noise and looking round he saw something diving into Meg's caldron that was full of bubble and squeak. I wonder if you could guess who that was?
The story is beautifully illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski, an illustrator that my daughter adored when she was young and he certainly brings the book alive with his colourful images.
But the unexpected happened, the three of them, complete with caldron and broomstick, fell into a cold, damp cave. There they met Crom, a caveman, and Og his trusty woolly mammoth. Crom wanted to eat and suggested that Og might make a nice meal.
Meg would not hear of it and she shared her bubble and squeak with Crom and Og. As the days wore on she made other meals and Crom and Og enjoyed them all just as much as Meg and Owl did but Meg was getting too cold in the cave.
Her solution was to jump on her broomstick with Mog and Owl and fly home to the warmth of her bed. Once there her and Mog were soon sound asleep with Owl watching on. Owl heard a noise and looking round he saw something diving into Meg's caldron that was full of bubble and squeak. I wonder if you could guess who that was?
The story is beautifully illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski, an illustrator that my daughter adored when she was young and he certainly brings the book alive with his colourful images.
September 15, 2018
Meg and Mog books are my daughter's favourites at the moment so I'm happy to be reliving my own childhood through these books. This is a good story but I didn't think it was as good as some of the other Meg and Mog books I have read. My daughter just wasn't as interested in the story. Her current favourite is Mog's Missing.
April 23, 2018
Cute book. A bit of an abrupt start though.
September 27, 2016
Meg and Mog has been one of my favourite books ever since I was a little girl. There's something about Jan Pieńkowski's vivid illustrations that just makes me smile. Our children also love the adventures of witch Mog, her stripy cat Mog, and Owl. If you want to take a learning angle, these stories are great for thinking about magic, recipes (ingredients for spells) and rhymes. But I love them just because they are so much fun. I won't write individual reviews for the books in this series, as they all have their moments of delight!
**Meg and Mog get prehistoric!**
**Meg and Mog get prehistoric!**
January 6, 2010
None of the sequels live up to the original Meg and Mog.
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