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    Leila and the Blue Fox: Winner of the Wainwright Children s Prize

    Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Tom de Freston

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    *Winner of the 2023 Wainwright Prize for Children's Writing on Nature & Conservation!*'A captivating tale that glistens with wonder. Leila and Fox will always have a home in my heart' Sophie Anderson

    'This is an extraordinary book - wild and beautiful and perfect' Katya Balen

    Come with an Arctic fox on a breathtaking journey ... an enthralling story from the bestselling, award-winning creators of Julia and the Shark. With dazzling blue and black illustrations, this is a perfect gift for 9+ fans of The Last Bear and A Wolf Called Wander.

    Fox wakes, and begins to walk. She crosses ice and snow, over mountains and across frozen oceans, encountering bears and birds beneath the endless daylight of an Arctic summer, navigating a world that is vast, wild and wondrous.

    Meanwhile, Leila embarks on a journey of her own - finding her way to the mother who left her. On a breathtaking journey across the sea, Leila rediscovers herself and the mother she thought she'd lost, with help from a determined little fox.

    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 the perfect gift for 9+ readers.

    Praise for Julia and the Shark:'A tale of courage, understanding and compassion' The Observer'Julia and the Shark is deep, beautiful and true. The art shines and the writing soars. A classic from cover to cover' Eoin Colfer'A truly beautiful book, with text and illustrations in perfect harmony. A book to treasure!' Jacqueline Wilson

    Kiran Millwood Hargrave is winner of the Wainwright Prize (in Sept 2023), the Waterstones Book Prize, and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year.

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    Kiran Millwood Hargrave

    Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston met at Cambridge University in 2008. They have been a couple and collaborators ever since, creating award-winning illustrated novels including the Wainwright Prize-winning Leila and the Blue Fox, and Julia and the Shark, which was Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year. Kiran is the Sunday Times bestselling author of fourteen novels for children and adults; her debut The Girl of Ink & Stars has sold over half a million copies in the UK alone and is translated into more than thirty languages. Tom is a renowned artist, and has also illustrated books by David Almond, Liz Hyder, and Michael Morpurgo, as well as writing critically acclaimed narrative non-fiction for adults. They live in Oxford with their daughter and cats, in a house between a river and a forest.

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