The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse is a beautiful book and full of the kind of peaceful energy the world needs. Be kind — know you are loved — pay attention to good things and, perhaps most important, cake.
It only takes a few minutes to read the whole book if all you do is rush over the words, but if you look at Charlie Mackesy’s drawings and absorb the story, you could go on for days.
It’s a story about friendship and love and living in peace with one another — after all, “It’s never going to be easy meeting a fox if you’re a mole.”
It’s about the need to connect, even for those who prefer a solitary life, and being kind, and being gentle, and working to understand, and all these mighty and complicated themes packed into a simple little picture book oh my goodness.
The friend who introduced me to this book said it was the second most important book ever written, behind the Bible. That’s saying a lot, but I see where she’s coming from.
All this year I have been calling for us to abolish war and violence as legitimate means of resolving differences. You may ask how, then, should we live. My answer is this book.
