SuitabookHope after disappointment
The fox family supports a favourite team that keeps losing, while the story presents a possible change in their fortunes.
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Michael Morpurgo - Author
This is a fantastical football story about hope after repeated disappointment, with a family of foxes facing an apparently impossible wish and a mysterious king seeking freedom.
A delightful tale of victory against all odds from master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo, lavishly illustrated by Michael Foreman. "Every fox in the whole town, in the whole country just about, is a football fan ... And we all have an impossible dream." In a cosy den under a garden shed lives a family of foxes. They love to watch football - all foxes do. But their favourite team keeps losing and losing, and it seems like things will never look up. That is, until Daddy Fox finds the ghost of a king, buried underneath a car park. A king who wishes only to be free. "Release me," says the Ghost King, "and I can do anything. Just tell me your greatest wish." For these football-loving foxes, might everything be about to change ...?
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a fantastical football story about hope after repeated disappointment, with a family of foxes facing an apparently impossible wish and a mysterious king seeking freedom.
The fox family supports a favourite team that keeps losing, while the story presents a possible change in their fortunes.
The ghost king wants freedom and offers to grant the greatest wish if Daddy Fox releases him.
The buried ghost and his request for release could prompt questions about whether the supernatural feels exciting, unsettling or reassuring. The repeated defeats may also make hope and disappointment worth noticing.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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