Sir Gibbie was recommended by a friend but somehow I have not been able to embrace it with the same fervor. It is difficult to read in that it has quite a bit of dialog written in scottish dialect which slows the story down so much that you forget what you are reading because it took so long to figure out what the character was actually saying. I am sure it is a lovely story but I could not get into it and I am glad I didn't have to pay for this edition. There was one long conversation between two characters where I was real not sure what it was all about and only got the gist of it. NOT a page turner, this one, unless you are just trying to get past certain parts.