The Drover's Dogs

Ten-year-old Sandy's childhood ends when his mother sells him to a farmer who half-starves and beats him.

So he runs away for good, away from the farm and from home.

Alone on the road, penniless, Sandy is lucky to find friends: Spot and Patch, two drover's dogs, who are making their way home all by themselves.

With no idea where they are going, Sandy joins them, following them across Scotland, through a wild landscape of loch and mountain, to the Hebridean island of Mull in the West.

When the d...