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Little Foxes

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Abandoned at birth, ten-year-old Billy Bunch has never had it easy. He's gone from orphanage to foster home, all to end up with Aunty May, in her tenth-floor council flat, and to be bullied by bigger kids at school. The only place where Billy feels loved, and truly at home and peace is in the wilderness by the canal. There, Billy finds a lovely water cygnet, and helps her to escape teenage tormentors; as well as a family of foxes, whom he tries to protect from danger. However, when the Mother is hit by a car, and three of the cubs are killed, Billy decides that he must run away with the last remaining cub, in order to protect him from death by man.

As an animal lover, I have read many books involving children and teenagers who love and protect animals, and LITTLE FOXES is on my list of the absolute best. Michael Morpurgo has created a wonderful story that tugs at your heartstrings, and will have the reader sympathizing both with Billy, and the last remaining fox cub. Not only is the story a work of wonderful fiction, but it also shows the reader some realities, including how hard it is to be a defenseless animal, as well as the horrors of being hunted by man. Overall, this is a wonderful new animal story for all ages that shows the bond between a young boy and the only friend he's ever had, a fox.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper