Leila has been living in London with her aunt and cousin since migrating to Englad from Syria, she is missing her mum so goes to visit her in Norway for the summer. To Julia and the reader her behaviour is disturbing and irrational, until it is revealed that she is bipolar.

Millwood Hargrave uses words to paint vibrant pictures of the landscapes featured in “Leila and the Blue Fox”. 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. Leila joins along with her mother Amani on an arctic expedition following the extraordinary migration of a polar fox across well over 2000 miles. I loved Julia and the Shark, their first collaboration and was, very excited to learn of Leila and the Blue Fox.In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. Another beautifully written story by the author of Julia and the shark, is the journey of Miso, the artic fox and Leila, whose. I really liked the story parallel between Leila’s migration/flight from Syria to the UK and Miso the fox’s migration/flight from northern Norway to Canada. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

She's a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and lives in Oxford with her husband and cats, in a house between a river and a forest. Julia is befriended by another lonely child, Kin, who is bullied by a group of racist boys in the village.I think Kiran and her husband Tom de Freston are an absolute dream team, what with her gorgeous writing and his beautiful illustrations.

Leila, a Syrian refugee, lives with family in London and is visiting her mother in the far north of Norway. On this journey, Leila comes to terms with some truths about her mother and her life as a refugee in the UK. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Here are childhood favourites and neglected masters, twenty-first century wits and national treasures, Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates. The reader is following the story of the fox, based on a true story, as she migrates across the arctic, hungry and alone facing danger and peril; all whilst Leila tries to rekindle her relationship with her mother triggering her escape from the war in Syria and her journey as she herself migrated to the UK as a 6 year old child.

The story speaks of real issues within the world without overpowering the tale, making it accessible to a wide range of readers. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon, Muriel Spark and Colm Toibin, That Glimpse of Truth is the biggest, most handsome collection of short fiction in print today. This is another fabulous story from the mind of Kiran Millwood Hargrave and stunning illustrations by Tom de Freston.

Leila, like the reader, can leave this story feeling that there are more possibilities in life than those dictated to us, that there are moments when you can make decisions of your own, change things, make a difference. The dynamic is frayed and ever-shifting; Leila hasn't seen her mother in six years and is desperate for answers.Come with an Arctic fox on a breathtaking journey … an enthralling story from the bestselling, award-winning creators of Julia and the Shark. The reader then witnesses a healing journey across the Arctic continent – healing for all involved – and the themes of not giving up hope and finding love become clear. Bronnie is so lovely with the boys and we also felt that having a man enthusing about the books set a great example. But as the summer reaches its height, her mother's obsession with the shark threatens to engulf them all.