The Laddie, the Mowdie, the Tod and the Cuddie: The Animatit Story

About the Book: 

This scots translation is based on the BAFTA and Oscar winning short film ‘The Boy, the Mole. the Fox and the Horse’ 2023.

'Hame isnae ayewis a place, eh no?'

‘I made a film wi some freends aboot a laddie, a mowdie, a tod and a cuddie – their journey thegither and the laddie’s search for hame. This is the buik o the film we made. I hope this buik gies ye smeddum and maks ye feel loved.’ - Charlie x

This is a brilliant and creative rendition of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy translated into Scots by Matthew Fitt.  

Discover the very special book that has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide.

The BBC One film, released on Christmas day adapted Charlie’s soothing drawings in full colour, giving a lovely new dimension to the story. The cast includes Tom Hollander as The Mole, Idris Elba as The Fox, Gabriel Byrne as The Horse and newcomer Jude Nicoll as The Boy.

Reviews: 

I love this story, and I love the Scots version from Luath Press even more! EMMA GRAE, Author

The warld I hae tae bide in is this ane, but the warld I grein tae stey in is the ane charlie mackesy has wrocht. ELIZABETH GILBERT on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Love, freendship and kindness – this buik spikks a universal leid. BEAR GRYLLS on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

A wunnerfu wark o ert and a wunnerfu windae intae the human hert. RICHARD CURTIS on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Simply, the warld needs charlie’s wark richt noo. MIRANDA HART on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

About the Author:

British artist, illustrator and author CHARLIE MACKESY began his career as a cartoonist for The Spectator, before becoming a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. His award-winning work has featured in books, private collections, galleries and public spaces around the world. His internationally bestselling book, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, was published in October 2019 and holds the record for the most consecutive weeks in the Sunday Times Non-Fiction Chart across all formats as well as being the longest running Sunday Times Non-Fiction Number One of all time. A number one New York Times best-seller, it is one of eight books since 2013 that has remained on the number one New York Times Bestseller and on the New York Times Advice, Misc. Best Seller list.

Charlie’s beloved book is the first ever book to be awarded both the Waterstones Book of the Year and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year (2019) and has been translated into over 40 different languages and dialects. Charlie’s words and illustrations have brought comfort to many and have been shared online around the world as well as on t-shirts for Comic Relief, magazine covers, street lamp posts, school classrooms, cafés, women’s safe houses, prisons, hospital wards and as NHS hospital computer screensavers. Charlie worked with Richard Curtis on the set of Love Actually to create a set of drawings to be auctioned for Comic Relief, and with Nelson Mandela on a lithograph project, The Unity Series. Charlie’s paintings have been exhibited widely, most recently in Sotheby’s in London. His bronzes can be found in public spaces in London, including Highgate Cemetery and the Brompton Road. Away from art, Charlie co-runs Mama Buci, a honey social enterprise in Zambia that helps families of low and no income become beekeepers. He lives between Brixton and Suffolk with his dog Barney.

MATTHEW FITT was born in Dundee in 1968. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1990 and, between 1995 and 1997, held the Brownsbank Fellowship, residing alongside ghosts and wallydugs at the former home of Hugh MacDiarmid. Author of the scandalous Kate o Shanter’s Tale, his poetry and short stories have been published widely. But n Ben A-Go-Go,his first novel, was selected as one of the Best Scottish Novels of All Time. He now divides his time between Scotland and the Czech Republic.