Meg would not hear of it and she shared her bubble and squeak with Crom and Og. Crom wanted to eat and suggested that Og might make a nice meal. There they met Crom, a caveman, and Og his trusty woolly mammoth. 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.īut the unexpected happened, the three of them, complete with caldron and broomstick, fell into a cold, damp cave. Meg the witch, was making bubble and squeak in her caldron while Mog the cat and Owl were having a bat hunt. ![]() 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. 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. 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. 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. Or so it seems.Īs 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. 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. 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. Here they meet a caveman named Crom, as well as Og, the wooly mammoth he has captured, and intends to eat. 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. 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. The result is the immensely popular MEG AND MOG series. 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. ![]() It was here, as Producer of the children's educational series WATCH, that she first met Jan Pienkowski. Helen Nicoll was a television producer with the BBC for many years. Helen Nicoll married Robert Kime in 1970 and they have one daughter and one son. She was educated at schools in Bristol Dartington Hall, Devon and Froebel Education Institute, London. ![]() Helen Nicoll was born in Natland, Westmorland, in 1937.
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