A Bedtime story.Swerlie-Wherlie, a young piglet, tries to find a quiet spot away from the noisy sty-pen.In a nearby wood, he rescues a young fox cub, Sox, from a trap, saving it from serious injury or maybe something worse.They become friends and decide to stay together for a while.After a visit to the fox cub's den, they hide from a human who was setting more traps.An old friend of Swerlie-Wherlie, Izzzzzabela the grass snake, happens to be nearby and offers to help them.Later, after Sox agrees to visit the sty-pen, at Blox Farm, they hide from the farmer, who doesn't like foxes on his farm.At the same time Cockie the Cockerel, is having his own problems with Barney the owl. The author was born in Manchester. On leaving school, a period in accountancy was followed by a teaching career in Primary Education.Several years of telling his own stories to his two, then young children, when on camping holidays, led to the development of his many story characters, especially Bouncey the Elf. Now retired, living in South Yorkshire.Latest books,Tales from Sty-Pen -Swerlie-Wherlie's New FriendSwerlie-Wherlie Meets Sox the FoxSwerlie-Wherlie and Bulfrey the Bull'Trimefirst' and 'Domain of the Netherworld', written under the pen name, Brian Leon Lee

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