Other editions of book The Sleekit Mr Tod

Weel, MA DEARIE, WHIT’LLIT BE THIS TIME? A SONSIEfat chookie fae Boggin? A DEUK or aGOOSE fae Boonce? Or abraw 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.

Doon in the glen there wis three ferms. The men that had these ferms were aboot as scunnersome and grippy as ony men ye could meet. They were cried Fermer Boggin, Fermer Boonce and Fermer Beek. On a brae above the glen steyed Mr Tod, Mrs Tod and the fower Wee Tods. Ilka nicht, Mr Tod wid jouk doon tae yin o the ferms and help himsel tae a meal for his wife and weans. Ad so the scene is set for a muckle battle between the scunnersome fermers and the tremendous tods. Following on from the success of The Eejits and Geordie's Mingin Medicine, Itchy Coo 's third Roald Dahl story in Scots sees Fantastic Mr Fox transformed into The Sleekit Mr Tod. He'll need all his wily wits to escape the fermers' wrath and find a new way to feed his faimlie. But is he sleekit enough to succeed?