It is also the story of Mr Fox’s cunning and trickery and outsmarting the three farmers whilst still feeding his family and all their woodland friends. A tale of the farmers determination to protect their food stocks and kill Mr Fox by whatever means they can this involves plots of shooting him, digging him out and destroying his home and even starvation. His constant stealing and outwitting the farmers at every turn with his trickery and cunning starts a war and a feud between Mr Fox and the farmers ensues – one which the farmers are determined to win!įantastic Mr Fox is a story of countryside conflict. With three well-stocked farms on his doorstep, he always has a plentiful supply of readily available food he can steal to keep his family well fed – as long as he stays out of the way of the farmers three.īut Boggis, Bunce and Bean, the three dim-witted, mean and greedy farmers, have had enough of Mr Fox stealing from them. Mr Fox relies on scavenging, hunting and poaching to feed himself and his family. 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 don’t have to scavenge through bins to find their food as they are surrounded by three well-stocked farms.

We all know that foxes are perceived to be shy and cunning creatures and that is no different when we meet Dahl’s Mr Fox, he shows just how cunning he can be when he outwits three greedy, mean and cruel farmers who want to kill him and will stop at nothing to do so!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 he published a story about a very cunning creature that roams the countryside, towns and cities and even your garden at night, you may even have seen one for yourself, the gorgeous red fox. One such word magician was the author Roald Dahl – a master storyteller that is probably best known for his wonderfully delightful children’s stories (he did also write stories for adults, poetry, screenplays and even a pamphlet about measles).ĭahl has been writing books since 1943 (The Gremlins) and his books are still very well received today. A collection of words woven together and spread across pages of paper can create some wonderful entertainment where the reader can lose themselves in another world with some wonderful characters.

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