Bea and the Fox

Every night, Bea Green prays to her parents.

They've been gone since she was very small. She doesn't know why, or how. She lives alone in a tipi at the edge of an enchanted forest, and the only adventures she's ever had are the ones she imagines.

Then one morning, Bea decides to walk deeper into the forest than she ever has before - and the forest decides to walk back.

She'll meet a kindly old woman with a too-wide smile. A lava monster who plays chess. A tall stranger with red eyes who isn't who he says he is. And a small, chubby fox named Nibbles, who saves her life more than once and seems to know more about her than she knows about herself.

Soon Bea will learn the truth about her parents, the truth about the villain who haunts the forest, and the truth about the kind of family that finds you when the first one is taken away.

Bea and the Fox is a magical chapter-book adventure for readers ages 8-11, full of fairy-tale peril, talking animals, brave girls, and the kind of friendship that breaks curses.

Written by Penelope Bragg and Eva Brown when they were nine years old.
Best friends. Co-authors. First book.