Customer Reviews

Fox Makes Friends

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This is a very sweet book about a little fox who sets out to literally make a friend with sticks and such. In the process other critters lend a hand and eventually Fox ends up with quite a few real friends.

My son is two and a half and just learning how to make friends. We are voracious readers and this is not an overdone subject. Plus, it is very applicable to a child's social development. Besides, I liked it, too.

Please understand that my son did not even acknowledge there were other children at the library story time until he had been going for approximately one year. The presence of the other children either:

1) totally blew his mind and he couldn't process it;

or 2) dismayed him through watching their unpredictable behavior.

Now understand, this child has been around people from the very start (we have a big family), and he gets along well with adults. But he doesn't click well with other kids, and the idea of making friends with one of these specimens was really too much for him to imagine at age 4.

But this book, with its pun on "making" friends, really clicks with him. It sort of lit the light that doing stuff alongside another person is a first step to friendship. The ending line, that they stayed friends forever, I just gloss over -- this child comprehends "forever" and would scoff at the very notion that a predator and two prey animals would stay friends through the next snack time, let alone forever.

We still read it. It is very well illustrated, and we all need reminders about making friends through being friends.

My daughter loved this book at 5 years old and still loves it at 6. She loves the wonderful illustrations and the story of friendship. She has labeled this one as one of her favorites. I love the large pictures - it was perfect to read to her Kindergarten class in the Fall. Even my youngest daughter at 2 1/2 loves it. I highly recommend it.

This is one of the sweetest children's book I've ever read. It writing and art have such an innocence unlike anything in today's world. It's definitely a book for kid's of all ages.

This is the best children's book I have read in years. Adam Relf is very talented. I have ordered and preordered his other two books.

A really cute story and great illustration. My son is 4 and really enjoys this book. Has helped him connect the concepts of friends and teamwork. Easy read. Illustration is very well done. We don't read this every night like a few others.. but, my son will surprise me somethings and say, "I want to read Fox." So, it sticks with him... definitely not a one-hit-wonder. I'd recommend and I am glad we have this book.

Oh. My Gosh. Adorable. Here's the deal on this one....GET IT. The past couple of years I've been on a mission to make my social skills lessons about friendship for K-1 students BETTER. And what helps me in this department are my trusted books. I would like to introduce you to my new BFF.....Fox! Guess what? He doesn't have a clue how to make a friend. He tries making friends out of sticks, stones, and fruit! Ha ha ha ha.....oh yes, lots of laughter from the students during this part. Oh but wait, and as they are laughing they start saying, "That's not how you make a friend!" Voila! So begins my lesson on - "How to make a friend." Fox Makes Friends doesn't fill in those blanks (that's my job) but it opens up the door (in a fun way) on just how to go about it. It's not a long book - it's just right for step one of friendship making. Oh, and it's a BIG book in size with well done illustrations.

When our oldest was four, he was having a hard time making friends. No matter how much we talked about how to make friends, his efforts basically consisted of walking up to someone and growling, glaring, and making gutteral noises. I'm sure you can imagine how well that was working for him.

So, I looked for all the age-appropriate books I could find on making friends. I found several, but this one seemed to click with him more than all the others combined. He asked me to read it to him many, many times over a period of many months, and still sometimes asks for it again. He loves it.

While reading it, I would talk about why the "friends" he built weren't really friends, and how he made friends with the rabbit and squirrel without even realizing it, and how that happened (the fox asked for their help and they did things together). After a while, he was telling me what the problem was with the built friends and how he really made friends.

Today, at 5, he usually seems pretty comfortable making friends with kids his age. This book was a huge help.

Also, the illustrations are beautiful. This is one of the few books I don't get tired of reading repeatedly.

I would enthusiastically recommend this book for any child around that age. But if that child is having issues learning to make friends, I would recommend this book more than all the others I found combined.

This picture book is so refreshingly sweet and innocent. It immediately became a favorite of mine.

The illustrations are pretty, the concept is cute but... nothing stands out apart from the quietly amusing concept of building friends, which seems to appeal to adults more than 2yr olds.