Disaster at the Highland Games

Kate loves going to Highland dance class each week and is thrilled when her teacher suggests she compete at the Highland Games for the first time. Kate agrees to practice, but quickly changes her mind when she finds out that dancing at home by herself is not as much fun as dancing with friends in her class. Besides, she figures her dancing is already good enough. Everything will be fine...or will it? A single misstep sets off a hilarious chain of events across the whole Highland Games field in this over-the-top tale.Winner of the Alice Kitts Memorial Award for Excellence in Children’s Writing, 2021.Author Riel Nason is a Canadian writer living in New Brunswick. She writes for both adults and children. Her debut novel The Town That Drowned won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Canada and Europe and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. She is the author of the middle-grade novel Waiting Under Water and the best-selling picture book The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt. Riel is also a certified Highland dance teacher who loves attending Highland Games in North America and Scotland along with her daughter, a competitive Highland dancer.Illustrator Nathasha Pilotte was born in Quebec City and now makes her home in Saint John, New Brunswick. She likes to paint in watercolour and acrylics and takes her inspiration from daily life to create a colourful, imaginative world. Her book Luna n’aime pas (Bouton d’Or Acadie) was on the TD Summer Reading Club recommended read list for 2021. Read more