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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