FANTASTIC MR FOX BY ROALD DAHL.
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Book blog
day boo yah. As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we
talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's
blog is on Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl.
The
story revolves around an anthropomorphic, tricky, and clever fox
named Mr. Fox who lives underground beside a tree with his wife and
four children. In order to feed his family, he makes night visits to
farms owned by three wicked, rude, cruel and dim-witted farmers named
Boggis, Bunce and Bean and snatches away the livestock available on
each man's farm. Tired of being outsmarted by Mr. Fox, the farmers
devise a plan to ambush him as he leaves his burrow, but they succeed
only in shooting off his tail.
The
farmers then dig up the Foxes' burrow using spades and then
excavators. The Foxes manage to escape by burrowing further beneath
the earth to safety. The trio of farmers are ridiculed for their
persistence but they refuse to give up and vow not to return to their
farms until they have caught Mr. Fox. They then decide to surround
Mr. Fox's hole and wait until he is hungry enough to come out.
Cornered by their enemies, Mr. Fox and his family, and all the other
underground creatures that lived around the hill, begin to starve.
After
three days trapped underground, Mr. Fox devises a plot to acquire
food. Working from Mr. Fox's memory of the routes he has taken above
ground, he and his children tunnel through the ground and wind up
burrowing to one of Boggis' four chicken houses. Mr. Fox kills
several chickens and sends his eldest son to carry the food back home
to Mrs. Fox. On the way to their next destination, Mr. Fox runs into
his friend Badger and asks him to accompany him on his mission, as
well as to extend an invitation to the feast to the other burrowing
animals - Badger and his family, as well as the Moles, the Rabbits
and the Weasels - to apologize for getting them caught up in the
farmers' hunt. Aided by Badger, the animals tunnel to Bunce's mighty
storehouse for ducks, geese, hams, bacon and carrots - as noted by
one of the Small Foxes, the Rabbits will require vegetables - and
then to Bean's secret cider cellar. Here, they are nearly caught by
the Beans' servant Mabel, and have an unpleasant confrontation with
the cellar's resident, Rat. They carry their loot back home, where
Mrs. Fox has prepared a great celebratory banquet for the starving
underground animals and their families.
At
the table, Mr. Fox invites everyone to live in a secret underground
neighbourhood with him and his family, where he will hunt for them
daily and where none of them will need to worry about the farmers any
more. Everyone joyfully cheers for this idea, while Boggis, Bunce,
and Bean are left waiting for the fox to emerge from his hole. The
author concludes "And so far as I know, they are still waiting."
- Fantastic Mr Fox Wiki
Fantastic
MR fox was published in 1970 with George Allen and Unwin as the
original UK publishers, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. as the original US
publishers, the current publishers of the book as of the posting of
this blog () are Penguin Books. Fantastic Mr Fox was awarded the Read
Aloud BOLBY Award from the Children's Book Council of Australia in
1990.
I read the
book in the summer between Primary school years and genuinely liked
reading it at the time. I believe the books message is about rising
above adversity and apologising for your mistakes and fixing them
with the best of your ability.....well that's what I've taken from it
anyway. My favourite character is Mr Fox himself and I like the fact
that several of the paragraphs rhyme. I recommend the book to primary
school children and families and I give the book an 8/10.
The 2009
movie of the same name is great in the sense that the movie makers
used stop motion animation rather than live action or cartoon
animation. My favourite movie characters are Badger and Mrs Fox
voiced by Bill Murray and Meryl Streep. Though it could be due to
their voice actors rather than anything. The Movie (Rightly) received
a 92% on the Rotten Tomatoes website, I recommend the movie to
families and those who love Dahl books on screen anyway and give the
movie a 9/10.
My
opinion of Roald Dahl the writer of this book is in last weeks blog
on Matilda (07/01/2020) please head there to see my opinion of him.
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And there
you have it a book for all the ages, definitely under the banner of
AWESOME!!!. So we'll be leaving this here for today please leave a
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