The Little Fox and the Blue Suitcase

The red, the fairest, the beautiful young Fox has lost her favorite blue suitcase! She searches high and she searches low but she can’t find it anywhere. Someone must have stolen her blue suitcase, and our Fox is not going to be satisfied until she figures out who the thief is!

Α fun fairy tale in verse with a very important lesson to teach young readers: being overly suspicious, judging others and lying can ruin friendships, and friends should be more important than that.

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Extended summary:

There is a mystery to solve in the forest tonight...

The red, the fairest, the beautiful young fox has lost her favorite blue suitcase!

She searches high and she searches low but she can’t find it anywhere. It’s clear to her what must have happened: someone must have stolen her blue suitcase, and our Fox is not going to be satisfied until she figures out who the thief is!

Nobody escapes suspicion. Not the thieving magpie, who surely wanted to steal the blue suitcase because of its shiny golden clasp, not the cunning ferret, who clearly stole the case to use as a bed, and definitely not the smelly badger, who must have wanted the perfumes Fox kept stored inside it.

Fox cannot bear to spend another moment without her bag so she calls for a grand meeting in which she invites all the suspects, as well as the wise old Owl, to figure out who the guilty animal is.

But when the animals all assemble and the truth is uncovered it is our little fox who will be surprised by how far from correct she was and learn a valuable lesson about suspicion, and being unfair and quick to judge.

The Little Fox and the blue suitcase is a fun fairy tale in verse with a very important lesson to teach young readers: being overly suspicious, judging others and lying can ruin friendships, and friends should be more important than that. After the story is concluded follows a note by clinical psychologist and author Andreas Armatas (MA DCH MISCPaccred) discussing the importance of not passing judgement, honesty. He offers advice to the parents of the story’s young readers about how to best teach children the importance of being honest and taking responsibility for their actions.