Fox's Feud & The Fox Cub Bold (Farthing Wood Stories)

This fourth instalment sees a young cub wild in the "real world" for the first time after voluntarily segregating himself from his friends and his father, "the Farthing Wood fox", whose shadow continues to hang over him.Impressively Dann manages to draw immediate focus to a single character and his few acquaintances after spending so much time on the huge Farthing Wood cast. He does so with grace and clarity, creating a story that presents itself with crystal clarity whilst prompting strong emotional responses in the reader. It's hard to believe that a fox's circumstances could illicit such powerful responses!The protagonist is superbly draw and rounded in a way that I don't see even in most adult fiction. You'll be swept along in a wonderful, funny, and very sad story that has always been my favourite of the series.9/10

This book takes a slightly different approach to the rest of the series as it focuses mainly on just one character, that being Bold. He has left the relative safety of White Deer Park and the ties to his family and is now a true creature of the wild making it on his own like he wanted. However rather quickly Bold discovers the hardships that come in the wild and that maybe the Oath that his Father and the rest of the animals from Farthing Wood live by has some merit. He meets a host of new characters including a crow called Robber, a female badger called Shadow, a dog called Rollo and a vixen called Whisper. With these new characters he forges close bonds after a major incident and soon finds himself clinging to life and making the journey back to White Deer Park to protect the lives of his future cubs.This book is a magnificent read that truly pulls on your heart strings. Due to it being more focused on one character you feel so much more invested in Bold's life. Although I did find myself missing the main cast of characters from the first three books. A great read that continues the high standard of the first three books!

My 11 year old daughter reads books aimed at 15/16 year olds. It was great to find a series of stories that she could read that have a moral dimension and excellent vocabulary usuage, without the usual resort to violence etc.. i read these to her before her SATS and they proved invaluable for her comprehension and imagination.

Great Book.

Following on from The Animals of Farthing Wood, this story is of Fox's first cub, Bold, and his journey to try to escape his famous father's shadow, and to escape the overpowering safety and security of the Park. Early on, his hopes of a being the top predator with the world at his feet are dealt a crippling blow, and he has to rely on other, 'lesser', animals to survive.It's a short book, which is just as well because it's almost impossible to put down.

Come il resto della serie, davvero bello,Uno dei pochi che conosco che una volta iniziato non si può più smettere!Davvero commovente!