In the next episode, she agrees to lead him back to his friends, but they get chased by a fox hunter.

A group of forest animals unite to help each other to safety in this classic tale of tolerance, cooperation, survival, and friendship. Vixen is worried when Fox decides to challenge Scarface to single combat and tries to talk him out of it, but she soon realizes that he will not change his mind and lets him go.Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

Badger is seen and rescued from the river, and Kestrel follows Fox downstream, but he disappears under a bridge.I adored even the front cover with all the beautiful animals that enchanted me and it was a story that i revelled in and found myself lost within something that was so poinant, exciting and adventurous. They all escape the church, but some of the slower animals are left behind and have to be fetched by Whistler. Colin Dann later wrote an abridged version of 70 pages, which was published in 1993 to accompany the TV series. I love animal stories and thought this one was nice but not the same to me as The Wind in the WIllows or Winnie the Pooh.

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The animals reach a motorway and are able to cross one side without any problems, but the other side is much busier and would be much more difficult to cross. Dann revealed in an interview with the "Green Action" radio programme on Q96 that the two-book version was special-issue for a children's book club that operated through British primary schools and included some illustrations left out of the original. Most of them make it across safely, but Weasel has to help the panicking squirrels and Fox gets left behind as he tries to help the rabbits who are also panicking.

There’s an obvious lack of female characters in the book which is kind of annoying, but then I guess this wasn’t an issue for children’s books published in the late seventies. I'm glad I finally got to this when I did, as it was a pleasant break from the norm, as well as being very reminiscent. Colin Dann, recipient of Britain's Arts Council National Award for Children's Literature, is also the author of six sequels and a prequel to The Animals of Farthing Wood.She displays the typical "ruff" that vixens have, though hers is on the back of her neck unlike the other red vixens in the series. His favourite book is The Count of Monte Cristo, Winnie the Pooh is his favourite character while Bill Bryson is his preferred author.