Emil and Rachel Go Foxing

By Alexander Dykes

Some days you build a fort. Some days you build a house for a family of foxes.

Deep in an enchanted redwood forest, in a log cabin with a crooked chimney and a big green door, live two sisters. Rachel is the older one, reads everything, and intends to be a woodcutter. Emily is almost never scared and dreams of cities with buildings taller than the trees. Between morning chores and sunset, the forest belongs entirely to them.

Then two small, hungry foxes ask them for help.

Their mother has been trapped by the farmer over the hill. Winter is coming, and their burrow is barely a hole in the ground. What follows is a sandwich split four ways, days of digging and building and hauling branches, a walk home through a forest so dark the girls have to hold on to fox tails - and a rescue that takes everything the sisters have, including Emily's ability to cry on command.

Emily and Rachel Go Foxing is a story about two girls who see a problem and get to work on it. Nobody waits to be rescued. Nobody asks permission. And the only thing anyone wants at the end is a promise.

Beautifully illustrated throughout. For ages 5-9 - and for anyone reading aloud who'd like the heroes to pick up a shovel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFB3H4JN
• ISBN13: 9798192681176
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 8.5"