Nov 16, 2025
The Adaptable Educator's Book Review - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse reads at first like a picture book and ends up feeling like a pocket philosopher’s manual: sparse in language, lavish in feeling, and insistently human. In fifty or so short panels — a handful of words on each page, hand-lettered and paired with loose, calligraphic ink-and-watercolour drawings — Mackesy stages a series of encounters that…
