Whilst I didn’t think there was as much dark humour and wit as in some of Dahl’s other stories it is still a fun and entertaining read. Overall, Fantastic Mr Fox is a delightful tale of greed versus nature. It is also a tale of Mr Fox’s cunning and trickery to outsmart the three farmers and still feed his family and all their woodland friends.

A tale of the farmers determination to kill Mr Fox by whatever means they can shooting, digging him out and destroying his home or even starvation. Fortunately, with three well-stocked farms on his doorstep he has plenty of food he can steal to keep his family well fed.īut the three dim-witted and mean farmers have had enough of Mr Fox stealing from them and constantly outwitting them with his trickery and cunning and a feud between Mr Fox and the farmers ensues.Ī story of countryside conflict begins. Living in the woods there are no shops for Mr Fox to visit to get food for his family, he has to rely on scavenging, hunting and poaching. These farms belong to three different mean and greedy farmers, one fat, one short and one lean: Farmer Boggis has a farm full of plump chickens, Farmer Bunce has a farm full of juicy duck and geese and Farmer Bean has a farm filled with turkeys and apples. Foxes are scavengers and will eat anything, but Mr Fox and his family aren’t city or urban foxes and have the luxury of living in the countryside with their den under a big tree in the woods and surrounded by three well-stocked farms. We all know that foxes are perceived to be shy and cunning creatures and in Fantastic Mr Fox he shows just how cunning he can be when he outwits three greedy, mean and cruel farmers who want to kill him!įantastic Mr Fox is a story about the anthropomorphic Mr Fox and his family Mr & Mrs Fox and their children of four small foxes. In 1970, before I was even born, Dahl wrote and published a story about a very cunning creature, you may even have seen one for yourself, the red fox. Born over 100 years ago Dahl is still read and enjoyed today by millions around the world, he even has Roald Dahl Story Day, an annual celebration of his stories! Children’s stories need to be fun, entertaining, memorable and easy to read so when it comes to children’s books and children’s authors one name always springs to mind that matches those qualities – Roald Dahl.

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