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A review by aotora
Little Foxes by Michael Morpurgo
5.0
This was an all right short read.
A boy named Billy is shuffled around various foster homes. He never stays for long. He has stuttering problems until one day, he meets a swan and he saves it and whilst he talks to it he stops stuttering.
He eventually comes across a family of foxes- a vixen and four cubs. The vixen is later killed by a car and he buries it and promises that he will take care of the cubs for her.
They are seen as vermin though and they are gassed and killed- all but one die. So he takes the remaining fox and tries to take it back to his foster home. His foster mother however tells him that if he wants to keep that fox he must leave.
They go on a run through the countryside, avoiding humans until they meet a man on a boat.
He eventually releases the fox and gets a new home, this time it's permament. He ends up living with that man and his wife because they just lost a son that was similar age to him.
There are a lot of lessons in this book -about taking care of nature, trusting people and knowing when it's time to let go and that wild animals can never be pets no matter how hard we try.
It's a lovely short book about nature and bonds that can form between humans and animals.
A boy named Billy is shuffled around various foster homes. He never stays for long. He has stuttering problems until one day, he meets a swan and he saves it and whilst he talks to it he stops stuttering.
He eventually comes across a family of foxes- a vixen and four cubs. The vixen is later killed by a car and he buries it and promises that he will take care of the cubs for her.
They are seen as vermin though and they are gassed and killed- all but one die. So he takes the remaining fox and tries to take it back to his foster home. His foster mother however tells him that if he wants to keep that fox he must leave.
They go on a run through the countryside, avoiding humans until they meet a man on a boat.
He eventually releases the fox and gets a new home, this time it's permament. He ends up living with that man and his wife because they just lost a son that was similar age to him.
There are a lot of lessons in this book -about taking care of nature, trusting people and knowing when it's time to let go and that wild animals can never be pets no matter how hard we try.
It's a lovely short book about nature and bonds that can form between humans and animals.