Author Alison’s beloved dog stories reach fundraising milestone
Alison Page’s Corrie’s Capers series is now available to buy in the Mary’s Meals online shop
Children’s author Alison Page is celebrating an incredible fundraising milestone – raising more than £32,000 for Mary’s Meals by selling copies of her Corrie’s Capers series of books!
Volunteer Alison, from the Isle of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, has written five popular books in the series, starting with The Westie Fest in 2018, and most recently, Corrie’s Paper Capers, which was published in 2024.
The series follows loveable West Highland Terrier, Corrie, on a series of exciting adventures – including performing at the Edinburgh Tattoo, taking up curling and even running a mobile library!
Alison started writing the stories to immortalise her pet dog Corrie, who passed away in 2020. She says: “I wanted to have memories of her, and it was just great fun. The family all loved her, and it was a nice way of keeping her alive in their minds.”
Throughout the years, Alison had been thinking about writing a book about her beloved terrier and after running a local fundraiser for Mary’s Meals, she was inspired to get started - and decided to donate any money she made from it to feed hungry children.
By raising funds for Mary’s Meals, Corrie’s memory is helping to feed hungry children in 16 of the world’s poorest countries, including Ethiopia, Malawi and Yemen. It costs just £19.15 to feed a child for a year with Mary’s Meals and, since the release of The Westie Fest, Alison has raised £32,945 – enough to feed to 1,720 children for a school year!
Alison says: “Everything you’re paying [from buying the books] is going to feed hungry children through Mary’s Meals, which I adore. It was an obvious choice for me, with feeding [children] in a place of education, and I thought the books with education and learning is a nice fit. So, I’m just delighted that Mary’s Meals can do something with that.”
For the first time, every book in the Corrie’s Capers series is now available to purchase from the Mary’s Meals online shop! You can buy the books individually or in bundles of two, three or five, with all proceeds helping us keep our promise to the more than 2.6 million children who eat Mary’s Meals each school day.
Get your copies of Corrie’s Capers on our online shop today.
