Colin Dann’s Fox’s Feud is a gripping animal adventure for 10 year olds about a fox family under threat from a jealous old rival.<\/p>\n
It’s a later Farthing Wood book. Fox, Badger, Tawny Owl and the rest are already settled in White Deer Park. So if your reader hasn’t read The Animals of Farthing Wood yet, start there, because this one gives away how that journey ends.<\/p>\n
It’s spring, and Vixen has had four cubs. There’s Bold, who’s big and fearless, and Charmer, who’s very sweet. Dreamer is always wandering off. And then there’s Friendly, who gets his name when he flops down across Tawny Owl’s feet and goes to sleep!<\/p>\n
Not everyone is pleased, though. Scarface is an old fox who’s lived in the Park all his life. He thinks the newcomers have no business raising families on his patch. And he’s got his eye on Bold.<\/p>\n
Fox wants to keep his family safe and his friends well out of it. Badger and the others have other ideas. They all promised to look after one another on the long trek to the Park, and they aren’t about to forget it now.<\/p>\n
Reading it is like dropping in on a big, kindly gang of old friends. Badger gets a bit hurt when nobody visits him. Tawny Owl is pompous and stays far too long (Badger has to drop a very heavy hint). Adder makes sly jokes about eating the mice, who ignore him completely.<\/p>\n
They all talk to each other in a lovely, old-fashioned way. It’s full of “my dear fellow” and polite little coughs, which makes the danger feel even sharper when it comes.<\/p>\n
Worth knowing before you hand it over. These are wild animals and the book doesn’t soften that. Early on, Scarface attacks the cubs and Dreamer is killed. Fox finds her body, and it’s described as badly savaged. That happens in the first few chapters, so it isn’t a spoiler. There are fierce fights with teeth too.<\/p>\n
A child who finds animal death very upsetting might struggle with this one. If your reader loves nature programmes and knows foxes aren’t cuddly, they’ll probably find it exciting and quite moving.<\/p>\n
If they’re after another band of animals who stick together when things turn nasty, try Watership Down. A handful of rabbits leave their warren on a nervous little rabbit’s warning, and they’ll need their best fighters before long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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