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2020 John Newbery Medal Awards
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Final Round - 2020 Mock Newbery Award
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Started off slowly, but picked up speed for me about 1/3 of the way in. Strong writing by a storyteller who doesn’t pitch low for its middle grade readers. Clever way that the tales intermingle throughout. I liked it well enough, but I have to say there are stronger fantasy books just waiting to be found in the library.
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I am not a fan of scary stories AT ALL. What allowed me to read this book was that it literarily is full of scary stories for young foxes, not humans. But to be honest, there were many times when I was anxious reading it. Readers are taken on an adventure and even though it is fictional it also teachers them about foxes. I learned where they live, how they learn, what they eat, how they get their food, how they find a mate and more. I love how the author wrote a fictional account while sticking
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Let’s just say I’ll never think about Beatrix Potter quite the same again. Great writing. Animal horror for little kits—cute little baby foxes, that is. Wonderfully, creatively creepy.
In anticipation of Christian McKay Heidecker’s upcoming author visit to our library, I listened to the audiobook. He reads the book; it is amazing. I loved it even more the second time through.
In anticipation of Christian McKay Heidecker’s upcoming author visit to our library, I listened to the audiobook. He reads the book; it is amazing. I loved it even more the second time through.
Wow! Just as great the 2nd read as the first with the bonus of a great book club discussion about the book. This books has so many layers and there was so much to discuss.
This is seriously a scary book. Told as a story within a story, from the perspective of foxes, it covers a “yellow” disease that turns loving family and friends into ravenous murderers, a “Mrs Potter” who skins rabbits and foxes and mounts them after capturing their essence on paper, and an abusive dad who terrorized his vixens and wants to kill his lame son. It grew on me as I went along, mostly because Mia and Uly are such great characters and friends. One reviewer calls it a modern Watership
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Apr 27, 2020
Susan
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
newbery-winners,
children-s-books-fiction
Can’t wait to recommend this to those kids looking for a scary story to read!
What would ghost stories for foxes be like? Stories of rabies and alligators and humans would definitely top the list. This book was scary in just the right way and I loved that the author committed to the conceit that it was being told by foxes with just their knowledge of the world. I really liked that the book was structured with an old fox telling scary stories to young fox kits and then the story of Mia and Uly being the scary stories that are being told.
Jun 28, 2020
Kimberly
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
middle-grade-lit,
favorite-middle-grade-books
Feb 10, 2020
Sara Card
marked it as to-read
Jun 26, 2021
Caren
added it
Jul 06, 2021
Karyn Lewis
marked it as to-read
