I am so excited to share the news that my next book will be out in the fall of 2026! (Yes, it is a long time from now. No, I cannot write any faster. I tried).

This book is part of the reason I keep a card stuck to my desk that reads “What If?” 

Because what happened is that I kept collecting fox stories. Foxes that were stealing shoes by the hundreds in a small German village. Foxes that were boldly walking thousands of miles across the Arctic ice. Foxes that were wandering through friends’ backyards. And I thought…what if?

What if could tell a story about foxes…a true story…okay, lots of stories…and talk about what we know to be true about the wonderful vulpes, but also about what humans have been imagining about them for thousands of years? What if other people are as obsessed with this magical creatures as I am? (And judging by social media, you totally are!)

And so SLY FOXES was born! 

I’m extra delighted to be working once again with the amazing Della Farrell at Holiday House (who helped make BREAKING THE MOLD so awesome, and awesome-looking! Seriously, the design team on that book made magic! Check it out!).

And I’m also grateful that as the world continues down some scary paths, I have had the opportunity to spend the last several months deep in (imaginary) conversation with this clever, adaptable, morally flexible, terribly vulnerable, and still quite mysterious creature. We can all learn something from a fox, I think.

I hope you think so too.

Me trying to do canid research while a large and needy felis catus sprawls all over me