- From master storyteller Michael Morpurgo comes Little Foxes. Bullied at school, nagged in Aunty May"s tenth-floor council flat, there"s only one place Billy really feels alive - in the wilderness by the canal. There he watches a cygnet on the water and protects a family of fox cubs. Then his secret place is discovered and the fox family decimated. Unwanted and unloved, Billy and the last fox run for their lives.