James Robertson & Roald Dahl 
The Sleekit Mr Tod 
Fantastic Mr Fox in Scots

Weel, MA DEARIE, WHIT’LL

IT BE THIS TIME? A SONSIE

fat chookie fae Boggin? A DEUK or a

GOOSE fae Boonce? Or a

braw BUBBLY JOCK fae BEEK?



Mr Tod needs to feed his family, but fermers Boggin, Boonce and Beek are as grippy as ony men ye could meet. And so the scene is set for a muckle battle between the tremendous tods and the scunnersome fermers. Read James Robertson’s braw translation of Roald Dahl’s classic story to find out if the Sleekit Mr Tod is sleekit enough to escape their wrath.

About the author

James Robertson is a co-founder of Itchy Coo. He writes books for both adults and children, in English and in Scots. His novel The Testament of Gideon Mack was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2006 and featured on the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2007. For Itchy Coo his translations include Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom,  Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox and A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh.