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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Very enjoyable but short book. Very nice illustrations by Quentin Blake. ( )D-Not one of Dahl's best. The story is thin, and ends without any real climax, as if someone had lopped off the latter half of the novel. Mrs. Fox thinks her husband Mr. Fox is fantastic! And so do all the other subterranean dwellers of the fields - the badgers, the weasels & the rabbits, since Mr. Fox is the master at getting food. He has been stealing chickens, cider, turkeys & geese from three disgusting, despicable old farmers for ages, and when the farmers come back to retaliate, Mr. Fox figures out yet another way to outsmart them & feed all the animals underground. He is cunning and smart, just as a fox should be. He reminds me of the Robin Hood in the old Disney movie (because they were both good-natured foxes who stole!). Fantastic Mr. Fox's adventures are fun & fast & witty and delightful. The first book I purchased from my school's book club. I have fond memories of reading this for the first time. Its about a fox family that are being hunted by three horrible men called Boggis, Bunce and Bean they want him strung dead because Mr Fox keeps stealing the hunters food because Bunce has cider Bean has ducks and geese and Boggis has chickens. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0140306765, Paperback)In the tradition of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, this is a "garden tale" of farmer versus vermin, or vice versa. The farmers in this case are a vaguely criminal team of three stooges: "Boggis and Bunce and Bean / One fat, one short, one lean. / These horrible crooks / So different in looks / Were nonetheless equally mean." Whatever their prowess as poultry farmers, within these pages their sole objective is the extermination of our hero--the noble, the clever, the Fantastic Mr. Fox. Our loyalties are defined from the start; after all, how could you cheer for a man named Bunce who eats his doughnuts stuffed with mashed goose livers? As one might expect, the farmers in this story come out smelling like ... well, what farmers occasionally do smell like.This early Roald Dahl adventure is great for reading aloud to three- to seven-year-olds, who will be delighted to hear that Mr. Fox keeps his family one step ahead of the obsessed farmers. When they try to dig him out, he digs faster; when they lay siege to his den, he tunnels to where the farmers least expect him--their own larders! In the end, Mr. Fox not only survives, but also helps the whole community of burrowing creatures live happily ever after. With his usual flourish, Dahl evokes a magical animal world that, as children, we always knew existed, had we only known where or how to look for it. (Great read aloud for any age; written at a 9- to 12-year-old reading level) (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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