Bidspirit auction | Original 10 Books of Beatrix

Original 10 Books of Beatrix Potter Translated into Scottish Gaelic - A POPULAR children’s classic has been translated into Gaelic in 2008 Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and also The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, have been re-written in the ancient Scots tongue and published by a Perthshire firm. The books, ‘Sgeulachd Peadar Rabaid’ and ‘Sgeulachd Beniàmin Coinneanach’ were launched after an American, who studied the language at Edinburgh University, translated them. Translator Jamie MacDonald, who learned the language in the late 1980s, said: “My wife had all the books for her children and I just fell in love with them. Gaelic writer Margaret Bennett helped arrange the translation and publication of the books. The 61-year-old taught Jamie the language and is married to the owner of publishers, Grace Note Publications. Mrs Bennett, who also writes an introduction in the books, launched the stories at a Perthshire primary school last week. The author, singer and poet said: “The vocabulary in them is quite advanced and having the same type of language in a Gaelic book is brilliant. “People find it very easy to accept these books have been translated into Russian or Chinese but are shocked when you want to translate it into Gaelic.”