White Fox

Description

Author: Jiatong, Chen

Interest age: from c 9 years

Published on 5 September 2019 by Chicken House Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of ‘The White Fox’ series.

Paperback | 256 pages
130 x 197 x 19 | 184g

The first novel in the magical White Fox series

– a beautifully illustrated tale of a young fox and a magical

moonstone.

‘[A] delight, full of peril, friendship and mysticism’

FINANCIAL TIMES

A young white fox called Dilah returns home to find his mother

gravely injured. Before she dies, she tells him about a treasure

with the power to make animals human.

The clues to its location are contained in a moonstone buried

beneath their den but wicked blue foxes seek the treasure

too, and Dilah must race to find it first.

Along the way, he meets all sorts of other creatures: a friendly

seal, an ancient tortoise and a fierce leopard but

can he stay one step ahead?

The first book in the White Fox series

Themes of conservation, nature, civilisation and what

it really means to be human

Translated by the award-winning Jennifer Feeley, with

gorgeous black-and-white line illustrations by acclaimed Chinese

artist Viola Wang

Continue the adventure with book 2, White Fox in

the Forest