I am in love, the characters are adorable and lovable and it’s such a lovely story that anyone could enjoy. This story tells of a boy called Charlie who would do anything to be brave, to be able to stand up for himself and against the bullies at school, to be brave for his potential new sibling that his dad’s are looking to adopt. But he struggles to find the fire in his soul to do so. That is until he is trying to hide his pebble in the most secretive place possible so his friends can’t find it…. And he comes across a mysterious stranger with a unusual but very very cute creature. Charlie is left to look after the fire fox and keep him safe from the terrible grendilock. If you want a cosy, meaningful story with lovable characters and an important message this one is for you. I adore Cadno and the way the story is written to focus on finding your inner strength and fire. The hideous and horrible grendilock, was creepy and works as a great villain… even if a little scary. I can’t wait to read more from this author, and also can we have more adorable animals too!

This book is an absolute page turner that I couldn’t put down. A beautiful story with some powerful messages that we could all learn from. By the end I have no doubt you’ll also be wanting a little Cadno in your life.

I bought this for the nieces and nephews, I didn’t intend to read the whole book myself, just skim and see what it was about. I was absolutely hooked by the first chapter and read the whole book in a few days. Every part of this book to done to perfection. It’s very easy to pick this one up and very hard to put it down. The illustrations are beautiful, the story is the perfect escapism for anyone and i can’t recommend it highly enough.

This book was a great read. It had fun characters & a good premise. Charlie is accidentally given posession of the last firefox, a magic creature from another world. He's told that it will be collected in 2 days, but 2 days comes and goes, and the little fox is still around! It's adorable, but given it's fiery nature, accidentally causes some trouble. But even then, it's being hunted by an evil creature that has come through from the other world, and Charlie has to do all he can to protect his new firefox friend. I loved the normalisation of Charlie having 2 dad's. It was never made a big thing of, like it was something unusual, just treated them as a completely normal family (which they are!), the only time it was really brought up was the antagonist insisting on refering to them as charlies 'guardians', and charlie had to keep correcting it, saying they were his dads. it was also a good personal growth story, where charlie realises that he is a lot stronger (and more interesting) than he thought. he gets bullied by two boys from school, and though his friends stand up for him, he can never manage to stand up for himself. But thanks to his new foxy friend, he starts to build up his inner strength. overall, this was just a really enjoyable, fun story to read. I can see me reading it again in the future.

This book was beautifully written and will connect with so many families around the world.