Harry's arch-enemy, Gestapo Lil, is back. After Harry and his aunts' gang of loveable thieves foiled Dax Jones has just found out that he's different. Very different. Because Dax the boy has discovered another side to his nature: Dax the fox. With all the fox's feelings, instincts, and senses.

Soon Dax finds a haven, with others are different too. But even there he is a little bit special thanks to his fox's senses being highly tuned to what goes on around him.

Despite feeling at home now. Dax can sense that he must remain wary. He can see through attempts to dazzle him. He can smell the fear behind a calm exterior. And even in the midst of safety, he can taste danger....

●High profile marketing and publicity campaign to launch the series and build each subsequent title

●Consumer advertising in children's comics

●Pacy and gripping, exciting and intriguing, the perfect start to a highly commercial series

 

Ali Sparkes is a journalist and BBC broadcaster who regularly exploits her sons, aged 11 and 7, as an in-house focus group for her children's novels. She reckons it's a fair trade for being used as a walking food and drink vending machine. Ali was local newspaper reporter and columnist before joining BBC Radio Solent as a producer and presenter and then chucked in the safe job to be dangerously freelance and write scripts and manuscripts. Her first venture was as a comedy columnist on Woman's Hour and later on Home Truths.

She grew up adoring adventure stories about kids who mess about in the woods and still likes to mess about in the woods herself whenever possible. Ali lives with her husband and two sons in Southampton.