Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Animals - Foxes

Winner, 1959 Caldecott Medal
Notable Children's Books of 1940-1970 (ALA)
Winner, 1992 Kerlan Award

This classic Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss features silly tongue twisters that will have young readers--and their parents--giggling with glee. When a fox in socks meets Knox in a box, hilarity ensues. Add chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks and you're sure to get your words twisted and lips locked With his unmistakable gift for rhyme, Dr. Seuss creates a hysterical and energetic way for beginning readers to dive into the joy of reading. This book comes with the following warning: "This is a book you READ ALOUD to...

"I never yet saw a young Fox who didn't think he knew all there is to know -- and you're just like the rest " Old Granny Fox says this to Reddy Fox, who thinks it will be as easy as pie to steal Farmer Brown's chickens by daylight and then elude Bowser the Hound. But in this entertaining tale of the winter woods, it turns out even wise Old Granny Fox can be caught napping

Peter Rabbit of the Brier-patch is full of mischief today -- and hopes to pull a little prank on Jimmy Skunk and Reddy Fox. But maybe you know the rhyme:

"When Jimmy Skunk is angry
Then everyone watch out
It's better far at such a time
To be nowhere about

In this delightful tale of field and meadow, Peter Rabbit gets in more trouble than he bargains for -- with a horde of Yellow Jackets thrown in

MEADOW MOUSE SMELLS A RAT Grandfather Frog told the story: "Back then there was a great deal of trouble, for someone was stealing -- yes, stealing Mr. Rabbit complained first. But no one really believed what Mr. Rabbit said, for he had a bad name for telling things which were not so. No one paid much heed to what Mr. Rabbit said until Happy Jack Squirrel went the big chestnut tree where he stores his nuts and discovered half had been stolen "It was a terrible time, for everyone suspected everyone else, and no one on the Green Meadows was happy. "One evening Mr. Meadow Mouse went for a...

Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks has been troubling tongues--and garnering giggles--since 1965. Written specifically to be read aloud, it features a tricky fox in socks and the progressively more difficult tongue-twisting games he plays on his exasperated friend Mr. Knox. Now available for the first time in an abridged, sturdy, board book edition, this beloved classic will have babies of all ages laughing with--and at--their parents as they struggle, like Knox, to blab such blibber blubber as muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle

One dark night in the henhouse, a hungry fox in search of his dinner gets more than he bargains for. Instead of a chicken, Fox grabs a duck. A very smart duck. A duck so sly, he plans to convince Fox that he isn't a duck but a--dog Yes, a dog.

This clever story and its accompanying visual narrative will delight readers young and old--because if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it HAS to be a duck...right?