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Bunce reeks of goose livers, and as for Bean, the fumes of apple cider hang around him like poisonous gasses." - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr.

Boggis gives off a filthy stink of rotten chicken-skins. Fox and their four small Foxes." - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. These horrible crooks So different in looks Were nonetheless equally mean." - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. "Boggis and Bunce and Bean One fat, one short, one lean.All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet." - Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. "Down in the valley, there were three farms.Means more to me than I can say.ĭax’s sixth adventure – The Shapeshifter: Feather & Fang by Ali Sparkes is out now. The fox’s tracks through the snow mimic the writer’s first hesitant words across white typewriter paper. The Thought Fox is a wonderful piece of writing… about writing. This is the title poem in a collection by the former poet laureate, in which he describes nature at its wildest. Disney’s movie was very loosely based on this but with less death and mutilation. The Fox & The Hound by Daniel P Mannixįull of grim realism, this is a kind of land-based Moby Dick story as a master of the hounds becomes obsessed with hunting a single fox – Tod – with a single foxhound – Copper. Here, in exquisite illustrations and short, perfectly sculpted sentences, is a story of loss and resilience. The fox can’t find the star which guides it through the dark woods. This is a picture book you’ll want to rip apart… and frame all around your house. The pair are after Pinnochio’s five gold coins and try to murder him. The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodiįox reputation takes a battering again in this classic, when the little wooden puppet boy is conned by a fox and a cat, both faking disability. Poor Mr Knox hasn’t a hope of escaping the Fox In Socks’s increasingly bonkers word games… or has he? 3. In gloriously weird illustration, the fox in Dr Seuss’s superb tongue twisting tale is once again represented as a clever sweet-talker. (Yum!) But if you ask me, that freshly-baked delinquent had it coming.

The Gingerbread Man – folk taleĬast as a villain for early readers, our cunning fox offers Gingerbread Man a ride across the river on his tail, back, snout and – oops – in his snappy jaws. If you read them all you can make your own mind up… 1. Here is my top 10 foxy fables - in which the fox gets represented in every light. I love foxes but not everyone’s with me on this. Dax Jones has roamed my mental thicket ever since. Soon after, my imaginings shapeshifted into a five-part adventure series for Oxford Children’s Books. Dax was an average kid who one day shapeshifted into a fox.