This book is inspired by Tommy, a boy from Lubango, in Angola.  He visited Elmsett School and told the children a traditional Angolan folk story and they in turn reworked the story, collaborating in four groups.

This is Tommy's tale:

"A wolf and a fox went hunting together.  The wolf killed a sheep, but was caught by the shepherd and beaten.  The fox ran away with the dead sheep and hid.  It covered itself with the sheep's blood and pretended to be hurt.  The wolf, after escaping the shepherd, carried the apparently wounded fox to safety, but when it stopped to lick its friends blood away, it discovered that it was sheep's blood after all.   It was angry at being betrayed.  The fox fled."

On completion of the book, the school had a book launch.  It was a wonderful evening which included an African drum group and a performance of the story by the children.

Copies of the book are available from Elmsett School, Watersones in Ipswich and The Kestrel Bookshop in Sudbury.  They are being sold for £3.99.

The money raised by the selling of this book goes towards buying Portuguese books for Tommy's school, which is in an SOS Children's Village in Lubango, in Southern Angola.  SOS Children's Villages provide care for orphaned, abandoned and destitiute children by giving them a 'mother', a family and a home until they are independent.