Fantastic Mr. Fox

Joseph recommends Fantastic Mr Fox because he thinks it is really clever.

He likes the way the fox digs a whole little village for all the wildlife. There are three farmers in the story, and they all have very different personalities, which makes it interesting. The story is funny as the fox steals from the farmers and drives them all mad. It is so funny the way an animal can do this to humans.

An old-time favourite and, like Enid Blyton, a good link between picture and chapter books. It was one of my childhood favourites and one I have read to my son more than once. It is a story of the bullied overcoming the bullies and perhaps something that resonates with kids as the small foxes manage to outwit three rich men and their machines trying to dig them out. The fox characters are anthropomorphised and so outside of the ‘real’ and yet there is a strong sense of place, and although the characters of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean are exaggerated, they… show more.