Customer Reviews
Mr Fox - By: Miss, 02 Jul 2008 
I liked the part when Mr Fox sneaked into the chicken house.
It would be suitable for 7-12 year olds because it is fun.
My favourite character from the book is Fantastic Mr Fox because he is hilarious & amazing. This book makes people laugh every day. I like The Mr Fox because it is an amazing & fantastic Roald Dahl book. Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farmers.
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Fantastic Mr Dahl! - By: ELH Browning, 27 May 2008 A terrific tale of three mean & nasty farmers who decide to catch Mr Fox whatever it takes. The three vile villains are nasty but foolish, a combination that keeps them on the right side of scary for a more sensitive child.
And so they dig down & down, first with spades & then with mechanical diggers. The race is on.
And then, how on earth can the daring & resourceful Mr Fox sit out a siege & keep his family safe from starvation?
The clever & daring Mr Fox fights for survival with bravery & daring through secret passages & an underground world.
There's a magnificent finale, a great banquet, & my older children (5&7) love Mr Fox's inspired vision of a triumphant new way life for alll the underground animals, while leaving the three mean farmers still waiting out in the rain.
With Quentin Blake's funny black & white illustrations on every page & many short chapters, the text is amusing & imaginatively descriptive as you'd expect from Mr Dahl. It also includes those little disgusting touches that children love such as "Bean's earholes were clogged with alll kinds of muck & wax & bits of chewing-gum & dead flies & stuff like that."
This is one of my favourite Dahl stories: a short & snappy chapter book that can be read aloud in less than an hour & is guaranteed to hold the attention of a young listener from about age 5. It's fast paced, with enough excitement, danger & momentum to appeal from Key Stage 1 though children (and adults) who are considerably older will enjoy reading it to themselves. And with gun-toting farmers on the prowl & terrible tractors wrecking havoc on the hill, it's a particularly good story with which to entice reluctant boys.
If you are looking for more of Roald Dahl's magic for the younger age-group The Magic Finger, Esio Trot & The Twits next.
If you like the Robin Hood redistribution from rich & nasty farmers to the poor & worthy then you might also try the longer but every-bit-as-magnificent Danny Champion of the world.
Fantastic Mr Dahl! - By: ELH Browning, 27 May 2008 A terrific tale of three mean & nasty farmers who decide to catch Mr Fox whatever it takes. The three vile villains are nasty but foolish, a combination that keeps them on the right side of scary for a more sensitive child.
And so they dig down & down, first with spades & then with mechanical diggers. The race is on.
And then, how on earth can the daring & resourceful Mr Fox sit out a siege & keep his family safe from starvation?
The clever & daring Mr Fox fights for survival with bravery & daring through secret passages & an underground world.
There's a magnificent finale, a great banquet, & my older children (5&7) love Mr Fox's inspired vision of a triumphant new way life for alll the underground animals, while leaving the three mean farmers still waiting out in the rain.
With Quentin Blake's funny black & white illustrations on every page & many short chapters, the text is amusing & imaginatively descriptive as you'd expect from Mr Dahl. It also includes those little disgusting touches that children love such as "Bean's earholes were clogged with alll kinds of muck & wax & bits of chewing-gum & dead flies & stuff like that."
This is one of my favourite Dahl stories: a short & snappy chapter book that can be read aloud in less than an hour & is guaranteed to hold the attention of a young listener from about age 5. It's fast paced, with enough excitement, danger & momentum to appeal from Key Stage 1 though children (and adults) who are considerably older will enjoy reading it to themselves. And with gun-toting farmers on the prowl & terrible tractors wrecking havoc on the hill, it's a particularly good story with which to entice reluctant boys.
If you are looking for more of Roald Dahl's magic for the younger age-group The Magic Finger, Esio Trot & The Twits next.
If you like the Robin Hood redistribution from rich & nasty farmers to the poor & worthy then you might also try the longer but every-bit-as-magnificent Danny Champion of the world.
Fantastic Mr Dahl! - By: Oscar's auntie, 15 Apr 2008 I read this book to my 7-year-old nephew recently & he squealed with delight alll the way through. The intention was to read a couple of chapters at a time, but at the end of each chapter he begged me to keep going, so we finished the book in one sitting! I've now bought The Twits, The Witches & Matilda to read to him next...
Fantastic book is Fantastc Mr. Fox - By: Mehajabeen Farid, 13 Jan 2008 
The story is about a fox named Mr. Fox. At night, he steals chickens, cider, & vegetables from three mean farmers (Bunce, Boggis, & Bean) in order to feed his family & alll the underground families. The farmers are fed up with this, & try everything to kill him - even going to the lengths of using bulldozers to dig him out of his foxhole. One night they wait outside his house to kill him. When Mr. Fox comes out of the tunnel, they fire at him; the bullet hits his tail, severing it. They then try surrounding the hill he lives in with men armed with guns. After three days of starving, Mr. Fox & his children dig a tunnel to Boggis' number one chicken house, & steal some chickens. They also raid Bunce's storehouse & Bean's underground cellar of apple cider. Along the way they meet Badger & other animals who are also starving due to the farmers' siege of the hillside. Mr Fox, feeling responsible for the whole affair invites alll the animals to a feast made from the loot & they alll decide never to go above ground again. They decide to then make an underground town for only the animals.
