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Fantastic Mr Fox

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Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat. Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a beastly temper. Bean is a turkey-and-apple farmer who only drinks gallons of strong cider. Mr Fox is so clever that every evening he creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the farms. Now the farmers have hatched a plan to BANG-BANG-BANG shoot Mr Fox dead. But, just when they think Mr Fox can’t possibly escape, he makes a fantastic plan of his own…

Our Review Panel says...

A Roald Dahl classic chapter book about a wily fox trying to outwit a trio of unscrupulous farmers.

Children enjoy the suspense as the stand-off between the fox and the farmers escalates. Dahl describes the unlikable farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean with his usual exaggerated wit and young readers can’t help but side with the charismatic Mr Fox as he plots a fabulous feast with his animal friends using supplies from the farmers’ stores.

This is one of the shorter Roald Dahl chapter books, and KS1 children who can handle a darker sense of humour will find the story hilarious, and many young readers enjoy the animal characters and imagining the idea of the network of underground tunnels.

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