Blackberry Fox
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected Jun 4, 2024
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- $11.99
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- Pre-Order
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
For fans of the Wilderlore and Skandar series comes a thrilling middle grade fantasy adventure steeped in Welsh myths and legends about two intrepid friends who are tricked into opening the door to an enchanted world—only to get trapped inside.
On a summer holiday in Wales, Portia and Ben find a mysterious door set in a bramble hedge in the middle of a forest. If the old stories about the wonders and dangers of the Otherworld hadn’t long been forgotten, they may have realized the door was a portal to the perilous realm and should never be opened…
Robin Goodfellow, the man with the fox shadow, needs someone to open the door in the brambles so he can finally return home, and he’s willing to use the children’s curiosity to his advantage and lures Portia under the guise of his innocent fox form.
Once the portal is open, great danger arises, and Ben and Portia struggle to stop a powerful evil threatening both the human and the fairy worlds as they find themselves stuck in the wrong realm.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A tween crosses into an alternate fantasy world in this enchanting adventure by German author Tordasi. While visiting her great-aunts Bramble and Rose in North Wales, 12-year-old Portia Beale awakens to find a fox rifling through her aunt's desk. After Bramble chases it away, Portia discovers a key hidden in a secret compartment. Portia soon meets Ben Rees, whose mother insists that he show Portia around. But Ben is waylaid by an injured blackbird, and Portia, noticing the fox from earlier, follows it to a door in a clearing. Portia unlocks it using the key and enters the Borderlands, which separate the human and fae realms. Meanwhile, Ben's blackbird turns out to be a tiny bird-man named Ridik who informs Ben that the fox is a shape-shifter, and that he's woken the dreaded Gray King whose fog turns people into vacant shells. Following Portia into the Borderlands, Ben, accompanied by Aunt Rose, must seek the help of Queen Titania before Portia—and both worlds—are lost to the Gray King's wrath. Tordasi makes up for somewhat bland characterization with inventive, articulately constructed, and lushly described worldbuilding steeped in Welsh mythology. Characters default to white. Ages 10–up.
