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Fantastic Mr Fox / Roald Dahl ; illustrated by Quentin Blake.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Penguin Books Ltd., 2016.Description: 81 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780141365442 (pbk)
  • 0141365447
Other title:
  • Fantastic Mister Fox
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.914 23
Summary: ANIMAL STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller - Roald Dahl! Bold and exciting and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. 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... Ages 7+
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Junior collection DAH Available 065765
Total reserves: 0

First published by George Allen & Unwin, 1970.

ANIMAL STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller - Roald Dahl! Bold and exciting and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. 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... Ages 7+

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