Leila and the Blue Fox: An enthralling, uplifting adventure story from the creators of JULIA AND THE SHARK

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Based on the true story of an Arctic fox who walked from Norway to Canada in seventy-six days, a distance of two thousand miles, this compelling, emotional and beautifully illustrated story is the perfect gift for 9+ readers.

Millwood Hargrave’s spare story telling allows the complications of both human and fox life to be revealed gently but with great truth. So it isn’t known how much further it travelled, but at the recorded rate it was averaging 29 miles (41 km) a day – and one day it recorded nearly a hundred miles (155 km)! Leila’s mother is a Meteorologist and has found a new life that is paid well in Norway, somewhere that has welcomed her as a refugee, as a highly skilled female scientist - an opportunity that hadn’t seemed available to her in the UK.This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books. The dynamic is frayed and ever-shifting; Leila hasn't seen her mother in six years and is desperate for answers.

Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! For more on how my mental health has affected my writing, please see this piece I wrote for Waterstones.The fox will leave a deep trace in Leila’s deep and kind soul and become a symbol of more valuable things. She crosses ice and snow, over mountains and across frozen oceans, encountering bears and birds beneath the endless daylight of an Arctic summer, navigating a world that is vast, wild and wondrous.