Leila and the Blue Fox
Winner of the Wainwright Children’s Prize
$15.29
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2023
Summary
Winner of the 2023 Wainwright Prize for Children’s Writing on Nature & Conservation!
‘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’ Katya Balen
Come with an Arctic fox on a breathtaking journey… an enthralling story from the bestselling, award-winning creators of Julia and the Shark. With dazzling blue and black illustrations, this is …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781510110281 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1510110283 |
| Author: | Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Tom de Freston |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Orion Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 447g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 152mm x 18mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
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 *Powerful and moving * Countryfile Magazine *
About The Author
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston met at Cambridge University in 2008. They have been a couple and collaborators ever since, creating award-winning illustrated novels including the Wainwright Prize-winning Leila and the Blue Fox, and Julia and the Shark, which was Waterstones Children’s Gift of the Year.
Kiran is the Sunday Times bestselling author of fourteen novels for children and adults; her debut The Girl of Ink & Stars has sold over half a million copies in the UK alone and is translated into more than thirty languages.
Tom is a renowned artist, and has also illustrated books by David Almond, Liz Hyder, and Michael Morpurgo, as well as writing critically acclaimed narrative non-fiction for adults.
They live in Oxford with their daughter and cats, in a house between a river and a forest.
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