"A quiet, poetic text and luminous art depict a fox's year from fall to summer when, mesmerized by headlights, he's struck by a truck on a country road. Discovering the body, a farm boy . . . finds it 'a bed of grass where deer have slept,' offering a prayer for the fox's spirit."--Kirkus Reviews. Full color.
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In this particularly deft coalescence of poetry and picturization, Gray Fox runs, hunts and leaps through shifting light and season. The artwork evokes disparate moods with unusual clarity: Gray Fox's neck fur reflects the reddish-gold of autumn leaves; his spring cubs chase butterflies and frisk in the wild mustard; under the winter moon, rabbit tracks shadow the crystalline snow. But one day Gray Fox follows one of the rabbits "to the edge of what he doesn't know about" and is paralyzed in the blaze of oncoming headlights. When a boy finds his dead body in the road, he carries him "down to the river where no one goes" and lays him where sleeping deer have matted the grass. But, as seasons spin, Gray Fox's spirit still runs with his cubs, and then with their cubs, who shine with the same reddish-gold. By holding fast to natural details (the cubs catch "grasshoppers, careless mice, floppy frogs"; the fox's corpse "looks alive, caught in the middle of a leap"), London neatly avoids any traps of sentimentality. Through a potent, indirect telling he allows the reader to become immersed in the story's truth. Sauber's dramatic, intensely hued watercolors respect the childlike reverence for life without sugarcoating or distorting a compelling experience. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Jonathan London and Robert Sauber capture the emotion and life of this landscape and the creatures who inhabit it with strokes of pen and brush. Run with Gray Fox. Please bring this book back into print!
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