A conversation on a journey
The four figures move through a spare landscape and speak about fear, kindness, friendship, and home. The story’s movement comes largely through those exchanges.
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
ABOUT THE BOOK
An illustrated conversation about kindness, fear, friendship, and asking for help.
A CLOSER LOOK
The story behind it.
An illustrated conversation about kindness, fear, friendship, and asking for help.
Drawing and handwriting together
Charlie Mackesy’s ink drawings and handwritten words share the page. Their looseness gives the book the intimacy of thoughts offered directly to another person.
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Introductions are grounded in the sources below. Collection notes and reading prompts provide an editorial starting point; personal opinions are identified in the collection’s content.
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