The Midnight Fox: 1 (Faber Children's Classics)

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This was a great winter day's read, so well written, with characters I could believe in and care about and with the creative, funny thinking of Tom and his love for the fox he discovers driving it forward. The best places to find fox paw prints are in the mud or snow, in woods, wetlands and the wider countryside. These impressions can clearly be seen in the ground, complete with claw marks. Like dogs, foxes have one central pad surrounded by four toe pads, though fox prints are narrower than a dog’s. Foxes also have a smaller, almost diamond-shaped central pad, with toe markings that sit higher up. my fox is better than an ordinary fox. It will live for ever, it will never suffer from hunger or hounds. I have it with me wherever I go. And I made it … through imagining it clearly enough and finding the living words.'

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Fox droppings (or scat) are much easier to tell apart than dog droppings. Fox droppings are typically dark, long and squiggly, and tapered at one end - dog droppings can be much bigger and messier. The poet skillfully uses soft alliterative consonants, like ’m’s in the first line and the hard ’s’s and ’t’s in the last stanza. Carefully placed punctuation, for example semi-colons in stanzas one and two, controls the pace. The poem comprises six stanzas of four lines each, known as quatrains. There is no regular rhyme scheme, but consonant rhyme scattered here and there, for example, for example, ‘live’ and ‘move’ in stanza one. There is no set metre but enjambed line ends create rhythm that imitates the sinuous movement of the fox.

In some ways, fox paw prints also look similar to cat prints, but since cats can retract their claws, their prints don’t have claw marks. The Thought-Fox’ is probably the most famous modern poem about poetic inspiration, and one of Ted Hughes' most popular. The fox and the poem merge, both products of the poet’s imagination. The descriptions of settings and of country values are coherent, vivid and unusual. A city reader is taken into the smells and tastes of the country. It's safe to say I didn't have any sort of expectations. From the name and cover, it looked like it was going to be a bit twee and without much merit, but I was pleasantly surprised, as I mentioned. It's definitely Michael Morpurgo-esque (although as it might predate him, I guess that should be the other way around), and I mean that in a good way. It's a story about a slightly troubled child and a bond with an animal, as many of his are, but there is also some real emotion in the book. I cannot exactly explain my fascination with this fox. It was as if I had just learned a new and exciting game that I wanted to play more than anything else in the world. It was like when Petie Burkis first learned to play Monopoly, and that was all he wanted to do – – just play Monopoly. One time he followed me around the yard on his knees, begging me to play with him. And one time he made his sister play with him and he did everything for her – – collected her money, moved her piece, paid her rent. All she did was sit there reading a magazine.

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I enjoyed the book a lot because of the enthusiasm and heart warming details it has in it. I would most definitely recommend this book to someone who loves animals or adventures.I wanted to keep reading to finish this book because it just grabs your attention with the words it just describes the characters so well and gives so much information and grabs your attention that you wont want to put it down.THe book created a heart warming feeling just a good book that will make you smile. When i read this it made me think of if there is a fox like in The Midnight Fox and it makes you wonder if its true and just think about the book. This book is fantastic if someone is looking for a book that will cheer them up on a bad day or just comfort them its this book because it just shows how each character feels and it shows so much love to an animal and people that it will make you want to hug someone.

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Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments There is some controversy around feeding the foxes in your garden, but if you feed them in the right way, they can bring a huge amount of joy to your family.

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Kuznets, Lois R. (1981). "Betsy Byars' Slice of 'American Pie' ". Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Johns Hopkins University Press. 5 (4): 31–33. doi: 10.1353/chq.0.1857. S2CID 144268031. This book looks through kids' eyes. Kids don't want to be dumped by their parents for two months. City kids don't necessarily want to go to the country. They don't want to leave their friends to stay with people they hardly know. This book respects that children have their own lives independent of their family life. I like that. For city boy Tom, adjusting to life in the country is hard. But, when he discovers a fox and her cubs living in the forest, he is fascinated and determined to protect them. Then Uncle Fred decides to go after the fox. Will Tom save her and her family in time? Midnight is actually quite on the childish side. Since her parents were killed when she was 6, and she had no company since then (until today of course), she still acts somewhat like a 6-year old. She tries to avoid talking to people as much as possible, knowing that she is slightly infused with asperger syndrome, and can never talk to anyone too well. She covers her "sad and childish" personality by acting somewhat serious, but not cold. She can't figure out which side she's on, Mephiles' or Sonic's. She and Mephiles are a couple, but at the same time wants to protect everyone on Sonic's side, and whenever Mephiles tries to kill any of the heroes, Midnight uses her invisibility power and watches the whole fight, and at the end of it, if they are hurt, dead or unconcious, she will revive them, after Mephiles leaves of course so he won't think she betrayed him. The bulk of a fox’s diet is made up of meat protein, so the best things to feed your local foxes are cooked or raw meat, or tinned dog food. They are also fond of peanuts, fruit and cheese.Other than the fact Midnight's powers are incredibly strong, Midnight's body is actually very weak, but most don't know this because they can't get past her powers. If you're able to get past her powers you'll be able to defeat her easily. Byars, Betsy Cromer. (2009). Boo's surprise. Brooks, Erik, 1972- (1sted.). New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-8817-5. OCLC 278980721. The Midnight Fox was first published in 1968, and is recommended for readers over the age of nine. With their beautiful new reprint, Faber & Faber believe that ‘This enchanted tale will capture the hearts and imagination of children and adults alike’. Rounded characters speak convincing dialogue. I am charmed when Mom chides Tommy, 'You don't try to like new things' and Tommy answers, 'You shouldn't have to try to like new things.' I understand both of them.

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I loved the relationship between Tommy and Petie, their friendship was wonderful, I loved their love of reading, their letters to each other and the way that although Tommy was bored at first, his boredom led him to discover new wonders. A very hard book to rate. There was such depressing animal cruelty in this book which was of course completely realistic of the time this was set. Without this awful treatment of animals and the way Hazeline's engagement was broken off because it was in common agreement she need to lose a stone or more, this would have been a 4:or 5 star. The tone is dream-like and mysterious; the imagined time is midnight, clearly a time of creativity.

The next time I saw the fox, it was a marvelous accident. These don't happen very often in real life, but they do happen, and that's what this was. Like the time Petie and I were walking down the alley behind his house and there, on top of this lady's garbage, we saw a mayonnaise jar full of marbles – not just cats Eye marbles but all different kinds, kinds I had never seen before. Petie and I turned them all out on the grass and first Petie chose one and then I chose one until they were all gone. And both of us right now, today, have every single one of those marbles. Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. after hearing a story that ended with the baby foxes being blown up by dynamite) "Oh." It was one of those stories that you're sorry afterward that you made somebody tell you. A animal adventure story that has remained popular over the decades and is still often read in schools today. Betsy Byars (née Cromer; 1928 –2020), an American author of children's books, says The Midnight Fox is her favourite of all her books. It was also the first book she put parts of her own life into, using headlines that came from some Betsy and her sister wrote as girls and things that her own dog had done.