Heartwarming. Covers empathy, personal growth, respect for nature (contrasting animal cruelty with a deep love for wildlife), courage, etc.

Content Warning: Some outdated colloquialisms of the time about “Indians.” Also, I think the “fat” commentary around Hazeline was supposed to be funny and not commentary, but because it isn’t funny it could be taught that her heartache surrounding her weight is largely because society puts unfair expectations on women to be stick skinny.

Overall, I enjoyed the sweet adventures of Tom and the Midnight Fox.

Read this with my 5th grade group and they enjoyed it

We read this book as our year 6 class read whenever we had spare time. I thought it was a good read because it contained plenty of humour but also lots of descriptive writing. This was something we were working on as class during literacy lessons and I thought I noticed some 'magpieing' taking place!

A true classic.