[mollymom103 Posts: 250 Status: Offline "Always do what you are afraid to do.” Emerson WWW]

Hi folks, what are the best picture books about foxes? Fiction or non-fiction. Thanks for the help.

[elisa Posts: 88 Status: Offline]

I love James and Edward Marshall's books about a character named Fox (who is a Fox). They are very funny- early readers. (Fox in Love, Fox on Wheels).

Lisa

[Franzilla Posts: 1,000 Status: Offline Gah! WWW]

Carrie Pearson's A Warm Winter Tail is non-fiction. It's not entirely about a fox or foxes but might help you?

Dr Seuss' Fox in Sox?! There's an Eric Carle one too, with a fox.

Then of course there's Fantastic Mr Fox. Oh wait, that's not a picture book. Duh.

I can think of several with foxes as characters but not the main character, but then there are quite a few traditional stories with foxes? Foxy Loxy and Henny Penny? Isn't there a fox in the gingerbread man too?

This reminds me of a beautiful film I watched about a little girl and her friendship with a fox. It's on Netflix in the US. The Fox and the Child. If you get a chance, watch it. It's beautiful.

[Anne Marie Posts: 2,852 Status: Offline VAMPIRINA season 3 is on Disney Junior now! WWW]

Melissa Wiley's new FOX AND CROW ARE NOT FRIENDS is really an easy reader, but it's super-cute.

[mollymom103 Posts: 250 Status: Offline "Always do what you are afraid to do.” Emerson WWW]

Ooh, some good suggestions. Thank you so much!

Any more?

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BROWNIE GROUNDHOG AND THE FEBRUARY FOX by Susan Blackaby, illustrated by Carmen Segovia. The illustrations are beautiful. The story was actually written to go with some illustrations that were featured in the Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition.

[carterhiggins Posts: 45 Status: Offline K-6 librarian, PB/MG author, blogger WWW]

Well, ROSIE'S WALK isn't explicitly about foxes, but he's a great character there!

[CarrieF Posts: 201 Status: Offline WWW]

I just read one today -- about a chicken and fox. LITTLE CHICKEN AND LITTLE FOX by Brigitte Sidjanski.

[Brian H. Posts: 181 Status: Offline Zeke, my God given inspiration! WWW]

I like Tricky Fox, but my favorite ever is Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke by Pamela Duncan Edwards. Fosdyke is hilarious!

[literaticat Posts: 405 Status: Offline WWW]

Fletcher and the Falling Leaves is TOTALLY ADORABLE!!! 

(also sequels Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms and Fletcher and the Christmas something.)

[Natalie Posts: 749 Status: Offline Flying the Dragon, Charlesbridge 2012 WWW]

THE FOX IN THE DARK by Alison Green is on our state list this year, so as a school librarian, I've read this to all of the primary grades in our school, and it's a definite favorite.

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I love Foxy and Egg by Alex T. Smith.  Heard about it at a SCBWI FL workshop and ordered it right when I got home.  Love love the illustrations! 

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LOUSY ROTTEN STINKIN' GRAPES by Margie Palatini (can't believe I didn't think of this one sooner!)

[mollymom103 Posts: 250 Status: Offline "Always do what you are afraid to do.” Emerson WWW]

Wow! So many great suggestions.