The Silver FoxOnce upon a time... twenty years ago to be exact, Andy had the idea of writing a series of children's adventure stories. He already had many of the characters in mind. Some were based on real-life friends, some on people and creatures he made up as a child, flights of fancy dreamed up to carry him away from a certain priest's mind numbing sermons.
Still lacking the confidence to write them down himself, he began to illustrate some of the key events. He showed those pictures to a talented writer, Diana Bugler, and enlisted her help in bringing the first story to life. What follows are some of those illustrations. They make up the tale of two quite opposing characters, both searching for something in their own ways, and searching for The Silver Fox.
Music composed, played, recorded and copyright Chris Swinney. www.chrisswinney.co.uk
The boy Jed on his way to Grandfather's farm
Jed dreams of adventure
Grandfather's armour
The very edge of Jed's world
The Swamp
Jed and Grurn talk by the fire
The anthills
Undercover Ants
The gloom of the cave
A moment of truth
The mammoth with two trunks
The artist and inventor, Princess Amber
The flying machine
Grurn in the howdah
Our hero
Grurn weaves Jed a new cloak to make up for losing the red one
The waterfall
At last, Jed finds Grurn
The lake
Grandfather's story
Ben and the penguitross play cricket
Ben and the penquitross find the dodo's nest
Ben and Lady Thoko - the flight of the moas
