Tanglewood

Tanglewood Synopsis

In Tanglewood, Fox, Rat and Crow encounter a strange creature in their old, overgrown wood. It’s a bison and he’s eating the bramble bushes, knocking down trees, wallowing in mud and leaving a lot of dung.

Fox, Rat and Crow don’t want a Bison in their wood and tell him to go. But Bison has a positive effect on Tanglewood and, in the end Fox, Rat and Crow see that they were wrong, and welcome Bison back.

A note from the author;

What inspired me to write this story? As a child, I lived in West Sussex, very close to Knepp, now a wilding centre. My father was a nature poet and countryman who knew the birds and their songs and where to watch badgers. My mother taught us the names of the butterflies and flowers and showed us the secret woodland places where rare orchids grew, and wild daffodils bloomed in the spring.

Now I live in a city, and I see the countryside of my childhood vanishing and children today missing out on the natural world I took for granted. In this book, I want to share with them the mysteries of the natural world and the hope felt when we see how some of the damage can be undone.

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