A comic book for young readers, part of a series dedicated to the world of Tiny Fox and Great Boar (one loves apples, the other is strong and caring).
Fox Valley is also inhabited by earthworms, beavers, a hare, a rabbit, a weasel with three curious kids, and a self-sufficient badger who doesn’t like to leave his burrow underneath a rotten tree. On behalf of the author, the resolute Miaoumiaou sets off into this world to reveal some secrets. She observes and conducts interviews, learning in the process about responsibility, kindness, and the relationships between the inhabitants of Fox Valley. The sequences of drawings show the world sometimes from a bird’s eye view, other times from an ant’s perspective. Readers migrate from the general to the specific and back again. At the end, there is a set of questions about emotions, along with the answers provided by Fox and Boar. There is also a section for readers’ responses – a space for reflection on one’s own relationships with others.
Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna, translated by Kate Webster