Foxly's Feast by Owen Davey
Hardie Grant Egmont, 2010. ISBN 9781921690594.
Foxly's tummy is rumbling and he needs to find something to eat.
Maybe he will find it in the barnyard or the duck pond. Perhaps even
in the duck pond. Are the farm animals in danger? Is Little Owl to
be the secret ingredient for his dinner? Or does this fox have a
funny fetish that makes this fantastic feast a little different?
Miss 5 loved the suspense built up in this story and laughed out
loud at the end. It gave us a great idea and we searched for
pictures in magazines and made piles of what Foxly would pick and
what he wouldn't. As a chef's daughter, she continued the
conversation with her dad and learned all sorts of new things and
new words like carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, carnivorous and
vegetarian. A talented teacher could take what we did and turn it
into an engaging set of lessons.
Loved it.
Barbara Braxton