The Sleekit Mr Tod

Weel, MA DEARIE, WHIT’LL
IT BE THIS TIME? A SONSIE
fat chookie fae Boggin? A DEUK or a
GOOSE fae Boonce? Or a
braw BUBBLY JOCK fae BEEK?

Mr Tod needs to feed his family, but fermers Boggin, Boonce and Beek are as grippy as ony men ye could meet. And so the scene is set for a muckle battle between the tremendous tods and the scunnersome fermers. Read James Robertson’s braw translation of Roald Dahl’s classic story to find out if the Sleekit Mr Tod is sleekit enough to escape their wrath.