Thursday, November 16, 2017

Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Fox by Benjamin Renner –NOT RECOMMENDED

Renner, Benjamin Rickety Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Fox, 187 pgs. First Second, 2017.  $16. Language: G (lots of Hecks) ; Mature Content: G ;Violence: G
The fox is sick of eating turnips. Everyday he tries to sneak into the henhouse on the farm and eat them. But he isn’t very brave or scary or smart and the chicken chases him off (because the dog won’t do his job). Even little birds aren’t afraid of him. One day he meets the wolf. Wolf coaches him on being scary and fox is able to steal some eggs. The goal is to raise them to be big enough that they are good to eat. But the baby chicks think fox is their mommy and things go majorly awry from there.
I like the idea behind this book (but I think its done better in the book The Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend). I absolutely 100% did not care for all the name calling, it really stood out –not very funny and too frequently: Moron, red-haired psycho, idiot, trash. I think the accidental brainwashing of the chicks was kind of creepy. The artwork is just small and kind of blurry.

EL -NO.  Stephanie Elementary School Librarian & Author

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