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An illustrated version of the folk song in which a fox travels many miles to get dinner for his wife and ten cubs.
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 3-Watson has taken the old children's song and illustrated it with verve and color. Although this fox is cuddlier than even Father Fox in Clyde Watson's Father Fox's Pennyrhymes (HarperCollins, 1987), he still manages to make off with a gray goose and feed his brood. Watson uses a dark palette since the action takes place at night, but liberal use of yellows and reds and broad white margins keep the art from becoming somber. Pages are framed by tree trunks and branches that give readers the illusion that they are looking through a window at the action. This book is a bit livelier than Peter Spier's 1961 version, and there's always room for another good interpretation.-Rosanne Cerny, Queens Borough Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Watson's (Father Fox's Pennyrhymes) bustling, predominantly earth-toned paintings adroitly create a period feel for this folk song, first published in the 1810 edition of Gammer Gurton's Garland, about the nighttime escapades of a crafty fox. Pulling a coat over his red vest, Fox dutifully goes off to fetch dinner for his 10 hungry children, one of whom is shown wailing, holding her empty bowl. Bouncy cadences demand reading aloud: ``He ran 'til he came to a great big pen./ The ducks and geese were kept therein./ `One of you will grease my chin/ Before the moon goes down-o! Down-o! Down-o!'" For singers, the score is provided at the end. Watson's timeless illustrations offer abundant particulars to pore over. Her audience will chuckle at the comic antics of Fox's energetic offspring, and they'll enjoy spying on the bunnies and mice that frolic on the tree branches Watson uses to frame her winning art. Ages 3-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Ages 3-5. This fox is not sly but domestic. Watson's pictures supply the motivation that sends him out on a chilly night: 10 hungry kits surround Mrs. Fox, who mournfully looks at an empty flour tin. A border of branches surrounds each picture and bit of verse as Mr. Fox seeks a good dinner to go. The eventual banquet in the fox hole is a crowded family affair (10 little foxtails spill out of pinafores and overalls as the kits crowd around), a jolly sort of predator-prey event. Music and words for the traditional song are provided on the last page. (Reviewed September 1, 1994)0688107656Mary Harris Veeder