About this title: boggis, bunce and bean are just about the nastiest and meanest three farmers you could meet. and they hate mr fox, they are determined to get him. so they lie in wait outside his hold, each one crouching behind a tree with his gun loaded, ready to shoot, starve or dig him out. but clever, handsome mr fox has other plans.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780141301136ISBN:0141301139
Description: Blake, Quentin. Good. No dust jacket as issued. One small tear at bottom of spine. One, vertical crease on front cover(along corner of spine). No other creases. Text is clean and bright. Binding is tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780141301136ISBN:0141301139
Description: Good. No Jacket. Edges Bumped, Sm. Chip Top Edge Front Cover, Markings Inside Front Cover, Top Right Corner Slightly Curled, Text Is Unmarked, Good Copy. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780141301136ISBN:0141301139
Description: Blake, Quentin. Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. Very good read more
Description: Fair. Dust Cover Missing. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140328721ISBN:0140328726
Description: Acceptable. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"This was a fun book. It had a great beginning hook with lots of rising intensity and action to hold a reader's attention. There were some POV switches in the middle of chapters, which made me have to go back and reread some pages, but over all a fun romp. Clasic Dahl. BFG is still my favorite, but this was up there too.
Pretty sure an editor today would censor some things out of this book though. The part where Mr. Fox's little son drinks some cider ale would never fly in today's middle grade novels.
Will be interesting to see what they do with the movie as Mr. Fox doesn't necessarily have a huge character arc, and it's more that likely the screenwriter will put one in."
"this is a book that holds a hugely large part of my heart. not only is a hugely fun book with a hero of questionable morals but it happens to be the first book i ever read without the help of my parents.
the story is quite simple it is one of survival, its a story of doing whatever it takes for your family. i woould not like to meet the person who reads this and doesn't in some way feel for the foxs and there plight. there struggle for survival and how their common enemy brings them together and helps them build a new community.
fablous but like all roald dahl books it can be quiet dark and sinister. with hero that you love to hate, heros with questionable morals that you just can't help falling in love with over and over agin.
A book i hold in very high esteem and having recently re-read it i have come to appreciate t and even fell in love with it all over again."
"Even though I rated the BFG as amazing, this is actually my all-time-favourite Dahl-book. The fable element, the fact that Dahl didn't shy away from something as graphic as a shooting and a bleeding tail stump, the foul humans and the beautiful insult to good manners that is Rat all make a lovely brew of a story. Even though it's slightly misogynistic in that all the women seem to be fairly useless (the animal females), or fat grumpy trouts (the human females), I will always read this one again and grin my head off."
"I reckon most people are aware that Wes Anderson is making/has made a stop-motion film based on this short children's novel. As a long-time fan of both Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson, the book had been on my radar screen for a while, but it took a couple strips in Kochalka's American Elf to finally get me to take a look. Since it's such a short work, I decided to read it online (scribd.com).
That's not an ideal set-up, (especially since I was interrupted several times) but the story is charming, and while Quentin Blake's illustrations are probably more effective on the page than the screen, they're still pretty great on-screen.
This is as good a book by Dahl as I've read, in the same league as The Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The BFG. Mr. Fox is a surprisingly compelling hero, as thinly sketched as he is (it's kind of a neat trick actually, the main reason we like Mr. Fox is because of how much he likes and is liked by Mrs. Fox and Badger), and the three farmers are memorable villains.
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