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| Author | Charlie Mackesy |
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| Illustrator | Charlie Mackesy |
| Cover artist | Charlie Mackesy |
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Illustrated book |
| Published | 2019 (Ebury Publishing) |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 128 (unpaginated) |
| ISBN | 9781529105100 |
| OCLC | 1182792920 |
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse is a 2019 illustrated book by Charlie Mackesy. It follows the developing friendship between the four protagonists of the title.
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse has been reviewed by The Hindu , [1] while James Lovegrove, writing in the Financial Times , included it in his 2019 best picture book list. [2]
It was shortlisted for the 2020 British Book Awards Non-Fiction Lifestyle Book of the Year, [3] is the 2019 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year, [4] and won the 2019 Waterstones Book of the Year, [5]
In October 2022, it was announced that the book was being adapted as an animated short film, co-produced by Cara Speller, J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghell, with Jude Coward Nicoll voicing the boy, Tom Hollander as the mole, Idris Elba as the fox, and Gabriel Byrne as the horse. Isobel Waller-Bridge composed the short's soundtrack. The short will air on BBC One and stream on iPlayer on 24 December 2022, [8] and will premiere on Apple TV+ as an Apple Original Film on 25 December 2022 outside of the United Kingdom. [9] [10]
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