Leila and the Blue Fox: The perfect gift for every child!

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These details breathe life into each environment, making them more than just a backdrop to the story. 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. Since asylum can be a confusing issue for children (and even adults), here are some books that explore what it really means to flee your home and have to start your life over. Her fourth poetry collection OE, a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice in collaboration with the artist Tom de Freston, was published by Bloomsbury in October 2017. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.

Leila's and Miso’s stories are intertwined - both are lost, have hope, don’t give up and find love in the end.There she finds what her mother is passionate about - a small blue fox and the story of the different migrations become entwined. This book in particular deals with immigration, refugees, climate change, estranged family and so much more. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The opening chapter sees Leila nervously negotiating passport control ‘Look them in the eyes, but don’t stare, don’t blink too much, smile, not with teeth, with your eyes, but don’t squint. Beautiful and moving, Leila and the Blue Fox delicately explores themes of migration, freedom and belonging, through a captivating tale that glistens with wonder.

The relationship between this pre-teen girl and her estranged mother sways satisfyingly back and forth from resentment and animosity to compassion and understanding. 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 is another fabulous story from the mind of Kiran Millwood Hargrave and stunning illustrations by Tom de Freston.Alongside the stories of these journeys, the ever-changing issues of climate change, migration, immigration and mental health are also explored.