A story for those of perhaps nine years and older. Too many foxes they said. The Hunters were coming. It was time for the Running. The Foxlings must flee Blackberry leads the escape of his band of urban Foxlings from London to a New World in deepest Devon. There is adventure, rescue and friendship. The cooperation of all the creatures of the city, the cats, the rats and the squirrels and even a parakeet is needed to get the young foxes away. In the country they meet new creatures, the deer, the hawks and finally some country cousins