The Cunning Little Vixen

by Rudolf Tesnohlidek

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This story tells how the vixen is captured but escapes, marries, and raises a litter. She is shot by a poacher, but her spirit survives in her cubs.

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As if ''Animal Farm'' had been crossed with ''The Wind in the Willows,'' this all but untranslatable Moravian folk tale comes alive and reveals how Sharp Ears the fox exposes mankind's clumsiness and at the same time celebrates freedom and the cycle of the seasons.
Christopher Lehman-Haupt, The New York Times
Dec 2, 1985
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Sendak, Maurice (Illustrator)

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Original publication date
1921; 1985
First words
"Smooth white logs, and those damned thieves stole them right out from under my nose," snarled forester Bartos as he stormed out the door of the police station. His rage was gradually ebbing, the way a hurricane ebbs, but th... (show all)under still roared through the dark corners of his soul.

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Genres
Children's Books, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
891.8Literature & rhetoricLiteratures of other languagesEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesWest and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian)
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PG5038 .T397 .L513Language and LiteratureSlavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian languageSlavic. Baltic. AlbanianSlavicCzech

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Czech, English, Japanese
Media
Paper
ISBNs
8
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