by Alasdair Hutton (Author), Stref (Illustrator)
The story begins with the fox's journey from the Borders and her arrival in Edinburgh, at the end of the Tattoo. She hears about the event but doesn't know what it is and throughout the book asks other characters to tell her. As she settles in to life in Edinburgh she has several adventures and meets a sniffer dog, a wise cat and a dog fox with whom she settles in to the den and has a family. The family watch the tattoo every night and after the final performance the tattoo fox follows the soldiers out of the castle, her tail in the air.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 128
Edition: First Edition, ed.
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd.
Published: 12 Aug 2013
ISBN 10: 1908373938
ISBN 13: 9781908373939
Alasdair Hutton has been the Voice of the Tattoo since 1992. He has been writing and telling stories for children since he was at primary school. In addition to being writer and narrator of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, he has written and introduced hundreds of events and concerts in Scotland and around the world. He won a David Thomas Charitable Trust Writing Award for one of his short stories and wrote the history of the 15th Scottish Volunteer Battalion of the Parachute Regiment to which he belonged for 22 years. He worked for the BBC in Scotland and Northern Ireland and has been a Member of the European Parliament for the South of Scotland and Convener of Scottish Borders Council. He lives in the Scottish Borders town of Kelso and writes little stories for his grand-daughter Aline who lives far away in America.