One Fine Day

This is the tale of a fox who drinks spilled milk from a woman. In her anger, she chops off his tail. She offers to give back the tail, if he gives back the milk. This begins a long journey of each item that he needs, needing something in return. In the end a kind man feels empathy for the fox and gives him what he needs. He then goes back through all the different characters to give them what they need, so he can get his tail back and he does! The illustrations are beautiful in this book!

This book was about a fox who drank an old woman's milk. This made the old woman angry, so she cut off his tail. The only way she would sew it back on is if she gave him back some milk. When he went to get the milk, the cow wanted some grass, and throughout the entire book everyone he came in contact with wanted something before they would help him. However an old man showed him an act of kindness and gave him something wanting nothing in return, and he was able to give everyone what they wanted in order to get his tail sew back on. I learned to lessons from this book. The first message was that you should not take from people, and the second is do not be hesitant to show acts of kindness, because you never know how much of a help you show more can be in someones life. show less

I believe this tale is a newly illustrated adaptation of a classic Armenian folktale. A fox, who has spent many hours wandering through a forest, happens upon a jug of milk, drinking from it before discovering the owner and asking. The old woman finds the fox and empty jug, decidedly snipping his tail off as repayment. The fox is abashed by his naked backside, begging for it back, she only asks for the milk he has stolen in return. He journeys through many, all of whom require something in return, it is finally he encounters one who requires nothing in return, and is able to retrieve the accumulated items, and his tail. There is an important message about give and take, but it plays as a great memory game too.

A fox steals some milk, and a woman cuts off his tail and refuses to sew it back on until he gives her back her milk. So the fox sets off to ask a cow for milk, but the cow wants something in exchange....

I enjoyed the interesting colorful pictures in this books. The illustrator did a good job of using the pictures to tell the story. It was written about a fox that gets his tail chopped off for stealing milk and then has to find people to help him, all wanting something else in return. I would suggested this book for a read aloud for young children.

The book jacket promises a “story of a greedy fox’s adventure as catchy as a nursery rhyme.” I can’t improve on that synopsis of this Caldecott-winning picture book. The illustrations are beautifully rendered and serve the simple tale very well.

A fox is wandering through a forest when he gets thirsty. He sees a jug full of milk that belonged to an old women collecting sticks. When the woman discovers that the fox has drank her milk, she becomes angry and cuts off his tail. The illustrations are charcoal and rather simple in design, but the fox still had an aura of desperation throughout the story as he goes from a cow to a field to a stream to a maiden, all the way until he finds a kind miller who gives him the grain that he needs to start the chain reaction of exchanges that will lead to him getting milk so that the women will sow his tail back on. The simplistic style of the drawings helped keep focus on the words, which really started to pile up towards the end as his list show more of exchanges became longer and longer. The minimalistic style of the illustrations prevented distractions while trying to read the story. show less