Leila and the Blue Fox: An enthralling, uplifting adventure story from the creators of JULIA AND THE SHARK

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Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon, Muriel Spark and Colm Toibin, That Glimpse of Truth is the biggest, most handsome collection of short fiction in print today. And again; all these elements together add up to more than the sum of its parts, and make an impactful story about a potentially difficult topic approachable to young readers and adults alike. Much of the artwork for ‘Julia and the Shark’ was made using these materials, as an act of mourning, transformation and repair.

The tracing paper overlays coupled with the monochromatic drawings with splashes of blue really elevated the story and added to the icy setting. Her debut YA novel The Deathless Girls was published in 2019, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, and long listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Stunningly illustrated, I loved reading the touching yet exciting at times experience that was ‘Leila and the Blue Fox’. Leila joins along with her mother Amani on an arctic expedition following the extraordinary migration of a polar fox across well over 2000 miles. When Julia’s mother is taken ill and has to be hospitalised, Julia knows that the only thing that will make her better is if she, Julia, locates the shark and photographs it for her.Her writing allows the imagination to see the story, with the settings being described beautifully and the characters written so well they become likeable and real. This is a multi-layered tale of a girl dealing with a tough personal situation at home, alongside a story of our natural world and Miso the Arctic Fox, an endangered species. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

It was an incredibly sophisticated and mature children’s book that could be enjoyed by every reader. Leila travelling to Norway to reunite with her mother while Miso, a blue fox, journeys across a continent. Leila has been living in London with her aunt and cousin since migrating to Englad from Syria, she is missing her mum so goes to visit her in Norway for the summer.Yesterday a parent came over to tell me how impressed she was by the book fair and that you did a fabulous job of selling the books to the children first. The aspects of motherhood are explored in Leila's reaction and relationship to the separation from her family in London - Hargraves wants us to see the definition of family and mother/daughter as something changeable in a positive way.

I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly! In an article in the Guardian Kiran Millwood Hargrave explains that these particular sharks are dated not by their bones but by crystals in their eyes that have trapped light from hundreds of years ago. Leila and the Blue Fox” follows the journeys of two enchanting characters, human and animal, as they cross the icy tundra of the Arctic.In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time.

The landscapes are further animated by the artwork from Tom de Freston, whose handsome illustrations capture the reader’s imagination. Her mother, a marine biologist, is desperate to sight the Greenland shark, which has been sighted in the North Sea waters on its way to Norway and beyond. Leila and the Blue Fox” is an enchanting story that grabs the reader and fully immerses them in the dangerous icy paradise of the Arctic.

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. She’s a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and lives in Oxford with her husband and cats, in a house between a river and a forest. It has been sitting on my shelf for a while but in the pre-Christmas madness, I hadn’t managed to get to it. While this could be because I was reading this digitally and the previous in print, but it helped these books feel different. Whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is something here to ease your pain.