Fox Swift

Fox Swift #1

by David Lawrence, Jo Gill, Cyril Rioli

Fox Swift is a brilliant and engaging new football book for children. Combining a gripping, laugh-out-loud story with expert football tips and training drills from Hawthorn superstar Cyril Rioli, as well as witty cartoons, Fox Swift is the perfect read for any child who’s passionate about Aussie Rules.Fox Swift is an 11-year-old football star. When his family moves from the city to the small country town of Davinal, Fox has to choose which of the town’s two teams to the rich Dragons, which attracts all the best young footballers, or the Diggers, a struggling club that battles to field a side each week.Following a run-in with the captain of the Dragons, Fox decides to join the Diggers, and even manages to recruit a few new players— two Sudanese refugees, the mumbling but super-tough son of a farmer, and a girl who plays in a helmet to disguise her identity—and even a new coach. When the coach contacts AFL ‘magician’ Cyril Rioli, the Aussie Rules superstar agrees to lend his football expertise to the struggling team.With Cyril’s help, can the Diggers change their fortunes and win the premiership? And can Fox and his new friends prevail over the school bullies?Combining the sporting prowess of Cyril Rioli, the wickedly funny words of comedic writer David Lawrence, and the delightful drawings of Jo Gill, Fox Swift is page-turner that will have children anxiously anticipating the next instalment.

Genres: Childrens

294 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2013

About the author

David Lawrence is a comedy writer/performer who accidentally became a children’s author in 2008. He has written for numerous TV shows including Hamish & Andy, Comedy Inc., and Talkin’ About Your Generation, and has been a cast member of the ABC3 children’s sketch comedy show, You’re Skitting Me. His books, Anna Flowers and the three part Fox Swift series, have sporting themes and use humour to tackle issues such as bullying and racism in schools.

Librarians note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Reviews

[Indiana B]

1. I am about to start reading Fox Swift. I am going to read this book because many of my friends have read Fox Swift and say it is a great book to read because it is an easy read and that I love footy so I should read it. I know the book is about footy and a boy named Fox goes to the outback and plays footy. I also know that Cyril Rioli was the author but that is about all I know. I expect that the book is going to be very good because friends talk very highly of it.

2. I am half way through the book Fox Swift. I am really enjoying the book because it is funny and relatable. The only thing is that it was what I was suspecting. I think that Fox in real life would be a great kid. He likes looking at the hall of fame at the Diggers Football Club and he specifically likes watching the records of a man called Mr Scott. Mr Scott is old and rusty and Fox persuades him to be his footy team coach. The reason being that there footy team was doing terribly and they were losing all their games. I think that Fox is a boy that is nice to everyone, can be a bit of clown and dedicates his time to footy. There are bullies that bully Fox and his friends called Mace and Vince. They think that they are the best at footy and they are show offs. On the Footy day, Buddy Franklin and Cyril Rioli came to the school and Fox Swift was in detention so he snuck out of the classroom to see the world class footy stars. I am excited for reading the second half of the book!

3. I really enjoyed the book Fox Swift. There was a lot of thrill, it was extremely funny and it is written very well. My expectations for tor the book were very high. I was expecting it would be very good because a lot of friends have said it was spectacular. I think that the book has definitely reached my expectations because of many reasons. One of the main reasons as I said before was how well the book is written. It really has good language and a lot of depth meaning that it really felt like you met the characters in real life. Overall the book was very good. Although I felt that the start of the book was a bit slow but everything else was good. The 2nd half of the book when the Diggers improved beyond expectations and ultimately beat the dominant Dragons for the premiership was really remarkable. I liked the book because of as I said before there was a lot of thrill especially during the Football games, it was quite witty and of course I love it because I go for Hawthorn and Cyril Rioli is my favourite player in the whole of the AFL.

[Reid]

I have recently started reading Fox Swift, and so far it has been an amazing book. It's straight up my alley, it's about sport and very entertaining so far. I think the author wrote this book to entertain but also I think there might be a moral that you won't always fit in at first, but if you be yourself you will eventually have a lot of fun and maybe even be the best you can be.

I Have recently finished this book and I loved it, I can't wait to read the rest of the series. I loved how he won the grand final even though they had almost no confidence from miles, and that they were the complete underdogs. The fact that they won even though they barely had a footy ground was amazing.

I would recommend this book to people around my age because it is a book that you start and 3 hours later you are still reading!

[Bradley]

This book will capture the minds of even the most reluctent readers. You can laugh your way through the book at cartoons and the text. I found it really hard to put the book down and could not sleep at night, wondering what would happen next.

[𝑁𝑖𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑎 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑&#x1d · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a great book. Even greater for footy lovers like me.

[Sam Robinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

One day I bought this book and an AFL ball, I felt so accomplished at the age of 9

[Kate Smith]

pulitzer type of work
📍home
🧘‍♀️personal choice
💐would recommend
🕯️reread

[Jake · Rating 5 out of 5]

i think this is a fantastic book. i love how there is like 3 stories going on at ounce, at different venues and some same people. yes, it might be a footy book but i know a few people who don't play footy that enjoyed this book. i love the graphs shown in this book of ladders and games, it makes me understand more what is happening. the ending does get a bit rusty after the grand final, like there is not so much exciting news going on, or the footy season has ended.
i loved this book because mainly i am a footy lover and i am in around the middle age for recommendation ages for this book
recommended for ages 9-13

[Sam Macaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best book I've ever read I love mace and his dad and Vince always failing and Vince eventually stopped being bossed around by mace and told him to be quite and how at the end Hugo meets his star cryil rioli and he is put under the pump in front of goal to win the diggers the game and fox is a amazing football player and there's Lewis an amazing runner this book is hilarious fun and amazing

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an interesting book and I think it is very one-sided in fox's view. I mean notice how whenever one of his enemies try's to mess him up, they are found out or humiliated in some way. I do like how this book ends with Hugo finally getting the credit he deserves after all the work he has done to help the diggers develop.

[NoahB · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book I recommend everyone that's interested in footy to read this