A novel by Donna Goddard and her granddaughter Aisha Bailey, written for 7 to 12-year-olds. Together they draw on imagination, family stories, and the beauty of everyday life to create tales for children.
Foxie is no ordinary child. She comes from Cha Chu Pani, a peaceful world where children grow in glowing bubbles, all creatures live in harmony, and everyone communicates through thoughts. As a hybrid Contact Child, her first solo mission is a big one — Earth.
After a quiet night landing in Tanglewood, Foxie is taken in by Aunty Em and Uncle Harry, who believe she’s simply a lost girl with no memory. But Foxie knows exactly who she is…
Earth brings many surprises: new foods, strange customs, powerful emotions, and a maddening foster girl named Maddie.
A magical, uplifting adventure about belonging, kindness, and seeing Earth through new eyes.
Chapter 1: Cha Chu Pani
My name is Foxie, and I come from a long way away. A very long way away. Much farther than you’ve ever imagined.
My solar system has one sun, like yours. We have seven planets. You have eight.
My planet is called Cha Chu Pani. In our language, cha means one, chu means two, and pani means dancer. My planet and its twin turn around each other like two dancers circling the sun. One full dance takes 454 days. That’s a Cha Chu Pani year. Yours is 365 days.
Cha Chu Pani and its twin planet share seven moons between them. You have one moon.
Unlike Earth, our dancing planets don’t have much axis tilt. The axis tilt of Earth makes your seasons. Cha Chu Pani doesn’t have seasons. The temperature is a pleasant 23 °C all year round.
My planet looks like Earth, but healthier. There are more plants, more colours, more animals. By the way, animals on Cha Chu Pani are not predatory. They don’t eat each other. And the people don’t either. That is, the people don’t eat animals—not that the people don’t eat each other. Of course, we don’t eat each other!
The Cha Chu Pani people are kind to animals and also kind to each other. Our planet is a very happy place. But don’t worry—it’s not boring. We get special assignments.
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