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Fox : a circle of life story

by Thomas, Isabel, 1979-

Format: Print Book 2021
Availability: Available at 23 Libraries 23 of 25 copies

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Summary

From the author and illustrator behind the acclaimed Moth , a scientific look at the circle of life.

In the frost-covered forest of early spring, fox is on a mission to find food for her three cubs. As they grow, she teaches them how to survive in the wild. Until one day, fox dies. Her body goes back to earth and grass and air, nourishing the world around her and bringing the forest to life. Death is not just an end, it's also a beginning.

With gorgeous illustrations and lyrical, kid-friendly text, Fox: A Circle of Life Story answers the big scientific question: What happens when animals die?


A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of 2021
A Booklist Editors' Choice Pick

Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "The creators of Moth (2019) take on the often-avoided part of the life cycle: death. As a child and mother holding an infant walk through snowy woods, an omniscient narrator beseeches the reader, in lightly rhyming text, to follow another creature. Set against the crisp, white background, a fox, in mixed-media reds and oranges that give it beautiful, textured fur, hunts prey for her cubs. On Fox's return, a whiteout foreshadows her fate. But first, spring arrives, and energetic verbs describe the three cubs playing and learning to catch their own food. Soon, it's time for them to follow Fox across the road to test their skills in the woods. While the vulpine family heads back to the den after a successful hunt, the evocative whiteout occurs again. This time readers know the source is car headlights; Fox is hit and tossed to the side of the road. The cubs continue their life patterns; however, but Fox's importance isn't over. As her body decomposes through autumn and winter, every particle is used by insects and the soil. Concluding notes explain death in animals and plants, decomposition, and how death is the beginning of a new life cycle. Final scenes of a new mother fox and cubs and the human children more grown reaffirm these concepts. A touching, gorgeously rendered story that demystifies death."
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review: "In this nonfiction picture book from the creators of Moth, luminous collage-style images warm a narrative rooted in birth and death. A long sequence of spreads shows a mother fox hunting for food, then returning to her three cubs, who roughhouse and play at hunting while she's gone. Then, in a single, shocking moment, the mother fox is struck and killed by a car, her copper figure shown against the blue sky: "Her heartbeat slows/ her last breath hangs in the air." Following this event, Thomas turns to the process of decomposition: "Mites and magpies take their share.// Flies and beetles visit too,/ laying their eggs/ where they know/ brand new life can/ feed and grow." What of the cubs? They look on curiously, then return home. The warm introductory family story of the first section and the dispassionate exploration of the second feel like disparate elements tacked awkwardly together. Older readers interested in the natural world and truths about predators and prey may be intrigued. Younger readers beguiled by the lovely fox family may find it upsetting. Ages 5--7. (Nov.)"
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Additional Information
Subjects Death (Biology) -- Juvenile literature.
Life cycles (Biology) -- Juvenile literature.
Biodegradation -- Juvenile literature.
Foxes -- Juvenile literature.
Nature -- Juvenile literature.
Death.
Life cycles
Biodegradation.
Foxes.
Nature.
Publisher New York :Bloomsbury Children's Books,2021
Contributors Egnéus, Daniel, illustrator.
Language English
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN 9781547606924
1547606924
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