Run Home, Little Fox

Tom McCaughren has written fifteen books for children and young adults. His award winning 'Run with the Wind' series has been translated into twenty languages including German, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, French, Dutch, Danish and Latvian.Erika McGann grew up in Drogheda, County Louth, and now lives in Dublin. She is the author of many books including The Demon Notebook (winner of the Waverton Good Read Children’s Award), the ‘Cass and the Bubble Street Gang’ series and Tabitha Plimtock and the Edge of the World. Her picture books include the Where Are You, Puffling? stories (illustrated by Gerry Daly) and Standing On One Leg Is Hard and What is a Peachick? (illustrated by Clive McFarland).SHANNON BERGIN is an Irish illustrator, avid doodler and tea drinker. As a kid, she wandered around the countryside making up stories and drawing on any available surface. As a grown-up, she basically does the same thing, but now it’s for books, galleries and other cool things. She has won several awards for her illustrative pieces, and her illustrated book Over the Red-Brick Chimney written by Una Leavy, was shortlisted for the 2024 Irish Book Awards. She loves books, gardening and all things colourful, with a hint of magic.

Tom McCaughren's vulpine novels defined many Irish childhoods in the 1980s. Now very young readers can share the pleasures of McCaughren's nature tales courtesy of his new title Run Home, Little Fox, a picture book collaboration with Erika McGann, illustrated by Shannon Bergin, which just won Irish Children's Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards. Foxy is a cub on a quest to "earn [his] bushy red tail". Setting out into the Wild Wood for adventure, he encounters all sorts of creatures and potential pals, as well as a conveniently bouncy trampoline. The glossy pages are full of animal mayhem, and the journey structure works brilliantly to extend the canon of McCaughren's fine work for this young age group