Little Foxes
By Michael Morpurgo

Bullied at school, nagged in Aunty May's tenth-floor council flat,
there's only one place ten-year-old Billy really feels alive - in the
wilderness by the canal. There he watches a cygnet on the water and
protects a family of fox cubs. Then his secret place is discovered and
the fox family decimated. Unwanted and unloved, Billy and the last fox
run for their lives . . .A gripping and poignant animal adventure from the master storyteller of An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Shadow, and An Elephant in the Garden.and ------and Former
Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one
of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by
children, teachers and parents alike. Michael has written more than
forty books for children including the global hitand War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011.Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen and stage, includingand My Friend Walter,and Why the Whales Cameand andand Kensuke's Kingdom.
Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of
Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the
Carnegie Medal four times.He started the
charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at
relieving the “poverty of experience many young children feel in inner
city and urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other
charities. Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with
children have provided Michael with the ideas and incentive to write his
stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children,
feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and
writing stories for children. "For me, the greater part of writing is
daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the
writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then
holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers."
Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.