Customer Reviews

Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story

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I am an elementary school teacher and have been teaching similes for years, but never so successfully as I have since buying this book. The kids really love it! The cartoonish pictures are humorous and give kids a visual to remember each simile. Reading this book helps build vocabulary and descriptive language. I had to explain some of the similes but the kids loved it so much they begged to read it on their own during silent reading. Toward the end of the year, some students even started using similes when writing their creative stories. This is one of the best educational books ever and I wish I would have found it years ago.

This book is about a fox named Rufus and a sheep named Babette, who Rufus is chasing, yet who is catching whom?

Cleverly written, this story follows the tale of two critters with many encounters and a surprise ending.

My son gives it his Third Grader's Seal of Approval as he says he learned many expressions while laughing all the way. Excellent for story time as well as independent reading, with great artistic pictures, this is a gift-worthy book.

This book lends itself to enhancing students' knowledge and skills in using figurative language. The colorful pictures attract my second language learners, who are also from low socio-economic communities, with limited background knowledge. My students love the book, and often ask me if they could borrow it. The first couple of weeks I took the book to my class, I encouraged them to read in pairs so one of them could guess the phrase on the next page. When I read the book to my five year old son, he just couldn't have enough. For a couple of days he read it aloud several times, carrying it all around the house. My son and students feel validated whenever they guess the right word or phrases that complete the simile. I am actually thinking of buying more copies to distribute to kids.

This story is hard to read, due to the way the simile starts on one page, then has MANY interruptions by other similes, then after the page turns, the simile is concluded.

It is hard to follow the main story line, especially for children who are big enough to read for themselves, but too little to sort out the order of the main story.

We prefer the book "My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks" by Hanoch Piven.

This book is fantastic for teaching similes. I highly recommend having the students study the pattern in the book and then attempt their own (they could even work with a partner/small group). Very cute!