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K-Gr 2—A fox has one busy day and gets his just deserts in this smart joining of four familiar tales: "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Fox and the Crow," The Fox and the Goat," and "The Fox and the Stork." Lowry's tone is at once contemporary and faithful to the economical Aesop accounts of the opportunistic animal. She adds small opening and concluding scenes to present a well-knit cumulative tale. The broad gouache scenes are a deft match for the narrative in simplicity and clever detail. As the fox decides the grapes are sour anyway he's watched by an unmentioned ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Stringing together four familiar tales, Lowry tells how a fox dupes three other animals and then is duped in return. In outline, the stories are as usual, though updated a bit ("The fox was cranky. He had slept through breakfast…"); the illustrations, too, feature a few such recent amenities as a refrigerator and chicken tenders. The hungry fox scorns unreachable grape...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Stringing together four familiar tales, Lowry tells how a fox dupes three other animals and then is duped in return. In outline, the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More