By Kiran Millwood Hargrave (author) , Tom de Freston (illustrator)
"Award winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave weaves a rich tapestry of interconnecting stories in this clever, dramatic and deeply moving adventure"
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Shortlisted for the Week Junior Book Awards 2023
Leila follows the Blue Fox on an extraordinary journey across the Arctic circle. For the Blue Fox the journey is all about her survival. For Leila, the journey is a painful but ultimately triumphant way of finding her mother.
Millwood Hargrave’s spare story telling allows the complications of both human and fox life to be revealed gently but with great truth. The emotional mood of her story is perfectly matched by Tom de Freston’s beautiful and atmospheric illustrations.
She was very tired.She lay down, her soft head on her soft paws.The sunset licked her face.The snow covered her like a blanket.
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She was very tired. She lay down, her soft head on her soft paws. The sunset licked her face. The snow covered her like a blanket.
Fox wakes, and begins to walk. 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.
Meanwhile, Leila embarks on a journey of her own - finding her way to the mother who left her. On a breathtaking journey across the sea, Leila rediscovers herself and the mother she thought she'd lost, with help from a determined little fox.
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.
'Beautiful and moving, Leila and the Blue Fox delicately explores themes of migration, freedom and belonging, through a captivating tale that glistens with wonder. Leila and Fox will always have a home in my heart' - Sophie Anderson
This is an extraordinary book - wild and beautiful and perfect. The mess and tangle of humanity is so brilliantly contrasted with the wild spirit of nature - Katya Balen
Leila and the Blue Fox really is a thing of beauty both inside and out - A.F. Steadman, author of Skandar
Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning, bestselling novelist. Her debut story for children The Girl of Ink & Stars won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year. Her work has been short- and long-listed for numerous major prizes including the Costa Award and the CILIP Carnegie Award, and her novel Julia and the Shark , illustrated by Tom de Freston, was named Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year, and Leila and the Blue Fox won the Wainwright Prize.
She's a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and lives in Oxford with her husband, daughter and cats, in a house between a river and a forest.
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She was very tired.She lay down, her soft head on her soft paws.The sunset licked her face.The snow covered her like a blanket. Fox wakes, and begins to walk.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Leila and the Blue Fox and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Leila and the Blue Fox features in the following genres: Ecological and Environmental Interest - Fiction, Recommendations, Ecological and Environmental Interest - Non Fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s, Teenage and Educational, PSHE: Family Issues, Animal Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Stories about Family and Friends, True Stories, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Fantasy / Magical, Julia Eccleshare's Picks of the Month, Featured Books for 11+ readers
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Leila and the Blue Fox was written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and published by Orion Children's Books an imprint of Hachette Children's Group
Leila and the Blue Fox has 241 pages
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