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Leila and the Blue Fox: The perfect gift for every child!

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A treacherous and dangerous journey on the surface, but textured touchingly with themes such as experiencing and accepting new surroundings, mother-daughter relationships, and the hardships faced by refugees fleeing their home country for their own safety. Now it’s summer in the Arctic Circle and the bright, endless sun threatens to shine a light on the awkwardness between Leila and her mum.

It also portrays the fragility of our planet and it’s inhabitants in a moving and awe inspiring manor.

Julia and her family are spending the summer at a remote lighthouse - her dad to work, and her mum to study the elusive Greenland shark which lives in the waters nearby. 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. Another beautifully told and illustrated story that explores really important themes that will tug at your heartstrings.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s detailed and skilful writing, complemented by Tom de Freston’s captivating illustrations, creates memorable and relatable characters, both human and animal, that you can’t help but fall in love with.This review was written by Laura Ovenden I have taught English for over 20 years in tertiary, secondary and now primary settings.

Leila and the Blue Fox tells the story of parallel journeys by Miso, an Artic fox and Leila, whose mum has chosen her work over her motherhood. Please note that some countries may charge the recipient duties on the 'import' of parcels from time-to-time. Yet ‘all the anger fades for a moment and there is only this: it feels so good to be held by her mother. Happy at home in Croydon with older cousin Mona and her Amma, attending a local secondary school, she heads off to Norway for a long overdue visit with her mother during the summer holidays.On a ship on the arctic seas, Leila gets the chance to spend more time with her workaholic mother, and get to know sides of her she never saw. Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was Indie Book of the Month, Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. This is a multi-layered tale of a girl dealing with a tough personal situation at home, alongside a story of our natural world and Miso the Arctic Fox, an endangered species. 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 perfect for readers of any age.

I wasn’t a very big fan of the mother-daughter relationship in this book (especially compared to the one in Julia and the Shark which felt a lot more fleshed out). I think Kiran and her husband Tom de Freston are an absolute dream team, what with her gorgeous writing and his beautiful illustrations. She joins her in tracking an Arctic fox on an epic journey, and helps the expedition out with social media. La historia en sí se me hizo mucho más oscura de lo que esperaba jajaj tipo no es un libro para niños común y corriente. Leila’s emotional story of lost love and jealousy is set against the perilous but essential migration of the fox.Orion) Leila and the Blue Fox is a sort of sequel to Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston’s Julia and the Shark.

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