The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) [Paperback]

Thornton W. Burgess (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 11, 1991 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Dover Children's Thrift Classics

Timeless fable tells of an overconfident little fox who steals a plump pet hen and is hotly pursued by Farmer Brown's boy and Bowser the Hound. Children will delight in Reddy's risky antics and the commotion his behavior causes among the other woodland creatures. 6 black-and-white line illustrations. New preface.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications; First Printing edition (December 11, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486269302
• ISBN-13: 978-0486269306
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #856,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for children, October 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) (Paperback)

I just reread the Burgess books at the age of 21, and I still find them as interesting, fun, and educational as I did when my father read them to me when I was little. These books have a timeless quality to them, and once you have read one, you want to read them all. The Aventures of Reddy Fox, being the first of the 20 bedtime story books, grabs your attention in this way. I would definitely recommend all the Burgess books as a must for parents to read to their children. These books are also an interesting way of learning about different species of animals in a way much more fun than studying an encyclopedia.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book!!!!!!!, December 2, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

I`m 8 years old. I got this book for Christmas last year and read it for a book report. IT IS SO GREAT!

These are the reasons I like this book:

1. It's funny

2. It teaches good lessons

3. It made me imagine. (I even wrote my own sequel.)

I have read many Thornton W. Burgess books and this is my favorite. He is my favorite author.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Reddy, April 12, 2010

By 

Darien Summers "Author of The Mischievous Har... (San Francisco, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Adventures of Reddy Fox (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) (Paperback)

In another one of Thornton Burgess' books on the forest dwelling animals of green meadows and green forest, the mischievous Reddy Fox and his antics take center stage. Burgess uses poetry, humor and mischief to captivate his young audience. The story also teaches many morals, but not in the usual way: the narrator will often not explain why something is right or wrong nor will the characters express it. Instead, Burgess will tell a short tale which involves some sort of wrong doing, and that wrong doing will never go answered for. It is up to the reader to see this, which I think is one of the factors that made this a great book.

We start out the tale with Reddy Fox going to live with his Grandma: Granny Fox, who teaches Reddy how to survive. Granny Fox is fiendishly smart and everybody in the forest knows this. Thus, the scourge of the forest, Reddy Fox, is developed and born. Later in the tale Reddy gets into big trouble, and his grandma and some of Burgess' other characters (out of sympathy, for nobody quite likes Reddy) help him out of it. Reddy and Granny then have to move on account of Reddy's actions.

The main thing that I got out of this story, and that I think parents will appreciate is how some of the other characters in the story who generally don't like Reddy, decide to be nice to him on account of his troubles. Despite the fact that Reddy has at times tried to catch and eat those characters, which Burgess doesn't explain explicitly because after all, this is a children's tale.

This book is 86 pages long, has very descriptive illustrations, easy to read font and a little bit of forest poetry (for lack of a better phrase) which usually opens up a chapter. The book is broken up into 26 chapters that are about 3-4 pages long. This book is meant for readers aged 9-12, but due to its short chapters, it can easily be read aloud to children of a younger age and I'm sure they will enjoy it. My kid does.

Darien Summers, author of The Mischievous Hare, a children's book.