SORRY TALE OF FOX AND BEAR

The exquisite line art and observation of nature in the pencil drawings of Heather Vallance drew us to this beautifully illustrated modern take on the trickster tale. 'Friendship is like a winding path and you never know what is round the next bend or where that path will lead you. This tale is about such a friendship full of twists and turns and a heartfelt letter to a friend.' Long ago, far from everywhere, someone once found a letter stuffed into a hollow log. It was a letter of pain and love and anger and regret. It was a letter to a friend.' 'We were friends, remember, when you were still around. True friends. Close-as-can-be friends... except for one thing. You were quick and slick and sly, and I was dumber than a pile of rocks. But that's how it was. And it didn't matter. Then you went and stretched the string of friendship until it snapped and we weren't friends anymore. And now you?re gone, and here instead are Hare and Rooster, greedy and grinning and pushing to be my new friend.' 'Fox was as mean as a spoonful of mustard,' Hare tells me.' The farmhouse, frozen ponds, drilling holes to go fishing together, a mouthful of wasps, the trickster is tricked... 'And I can't help wondering... where are you now?' Readers? eyes will be bulging and your whiskers trembling by the end of the moralistic tale injected with a fresh contemporary twist for modern audiences. With beautiful pagemarker, 60 very large pages and exquisite line art.
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