Vulpes, the Red Fox
10 best books like Vulpes, the Red Fox (Jean Craighead George): Hunter's Moon, Dark Moon, First Snow in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy, Garfield: His 9 Lives, The Real Thief, Scruffy, The Midnight Fox, The Enchanted Horse, Gib Rides Home, The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root
| Author | Garry Kilworth |
| ISBN | 0044406150 |
Well, I sure hope I can do justice to this.
Hunter's Moon is an allegory of emotion biting, realistic proportions. This is animal fiction at it's prime; adult, realistic and competent. Garry Kilworth absolutely nails personification here. Unlike a portion of animal related books, these...
| Author | Meredith Ann Pierce |
| ISBN | 0142500577 |
Volume Two of the Firebringer Trilogy
“Carefully plotted, with satisfying action and fully developed, intriguing characters, this is sure to please fantasy lovers.”—Booklist
He was the youngest prince the unicorns had ever known: Aljan son-of-Korr, Dark Moon. A silver...
| Author | Carl R. Sams II |
| ISBN | 0977010864 |
STORY = 3 STARS
PHOTOGRAPHY = 5 STARS
I really appreciate what the authors are trying to do here--make beautiful wildlife photography "accessible" to children by pairing the story of a fawn's first snow with beautiful photographs to match the text. The story itself would probably not...
| Author | Jim Davis |
| ISBN | 0345320611 |
Garfield lives his life to the fullest . . . 9 times!
Cave Cat -- the first cat crawled out of the sea 10 million years ago. He was happy to be out of the water -- until he met Big Bob!
The Vikings -- he was big, he was mean, he was a Viking. Garfield the Orange had looted a lot of cities, but none like St. Paul,...
| Author | William Steig |
| ISBN | 0374462089 |
Gawain the goose is really devoted to King Basil the bear and so he takes his job as Chief Guard of the Royal Treasury seriously. When rubies, then gold ducats, and finally the world-famous Kalikak diamond vanish from the treasure house, there is no way to account for the disappearances. Only Gawain and...
| Author | Jack Stoneley |
| ISBN | 0671410962 |
Life began in hardship for Scruffy, carried to survival by her mother from a fire in a condemned building, only to be orphaned by a sheepherder's rifle. Soon she is rescued and nursed back to health by some merciful children but leaves them to make her way back to the city. A kindly street performer takes...
| Author | Betsy Byars |
| ISBN | 0140314504 |
I enjoyed the book a lot because of the enthusiasm and heart warming details it has in it. I would most definitely recommend this book to someone who loves animals or adventures.I wanted to keep reading to finish this book because it just grabs your attention with the words it just describes the characters...
| Author | Magdalen Nabb |
| ISBN | 0786810297 |
This was a childhood favorite of mine I very much enjoyed when I was learning to read.
It is the beautiful story of a little girl named Irina who gets it in her head that she wants -- as her Christmas gift one year -- a strange, dirty "rocking horse" with no rocker she spies in the window of a shop run...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0385322674 |
Gib Whittaker's life at Lovell House Orphanage in the early 1900s is pretty bleak. But along with hours of chores, bad food, and paddlings, the boys do get some schooling, and reading and writing are better than scrubbing floors. Still, Gib's fondest dream is to have a real family. So when Georgie Olson...
| Author | Christopher Pennell |
| ISBN | 0547792638 |
A book much like the mysterious, inviting woods it describes. Step in to find friendship, magic, and surprises.
A little girl who can only sleep during the day grows from something of an isolated town oddity to the heiress of an ancient legacy of magic and music.
Exquisitely illustrated,...
| Author | Elizabeth Hall |
| ISBN | 0440413214 |
Granite, a Siberian husky puppy, is all alone in the Alaskan forest after escaping from his kennel. Each moment of his life is threatened until Snowdrift, a great white wolf, welcomes him into a wolf pack. But Granite must earn his place among the wolf tribe by facing vicious attacks from the other wolves,...
| Author | Jim Kjelgaard |
| ISBN | 0823400409 |
This is the story of a red fox, of a boy and a dog who hunted him, and of the wilderness where it happened.
Because of the odd-shaped white patch on his chest that gave him his name, and the freak six toes on his front feet, Star was a marked fox from his youngest days. And because of his growing wisdom and...
| Author | Sterling North |
| ISBN | 0140361669 |
Robbie Trent, protagonist in Sterling North's The Wolfling, stands on the brink. The brinkbof manhood, the brink of maturity, as the comely Inga Skavilain courts him, making him jealous first of the portrait painted of her by Frithof Kumlein, then making it a present to him.
But Robbie Trent,...
| Author | Walt Morey |
| ISBN | 0140384235 |
An extraordinary journey of instinct and survival from the author of Gentle Ben
When Andy Evans stumbles upon the snow-covered wreckage of a small plane, he's shocked to find a survivor. Should he put the gravely injured dog out of his misery? The look in the animal's eyes says he's not ready to die....
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 1406346020 |
A touching story about a boy in hospital, who dreams wild and extraordinary dreams as he faces a life-saving operation.
Jim is in hospital. He’s frightened. What if the doctors send him somewhere that he can’t find his way back from? Nurse Bami tells Jim that he must go to his “good place”...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0241955203 |
1 boy. 1 girl. 1 camel. Squillions of dollars. A plan that can't fail. Or can it? Oliver's parents own a bank. This makes them very rich, very important and very busy. Oliver, on the other hand, is terrible at maths and aspires to nothing more than owning the puppy that he frequently visits at his local pet...
| Author | Mary Stanton |
| ISBN | 0671698206 |
While i liked the characters in this book awhole lot more, i felt alot of it was too easy? not believable? It was like, the story is great, alot of potential, but the author didn't want to take the time to lead you there. Also,at the beginning of the book, I like Piper...alot. But by the end, he loses something,...
| Author | Nicholas Edwards |
| ISBN | 0590379909 |
A Mary Sue by any other name. I found it sickening how absolutely everyone even remotely involved in the story can't shut up about how amazing Santa Paws is, how he graciously helps anyone in need and never once fails...ugh, I want to throw up just remembering it.
Sure, I get it, a lot of people love dogs,...
| Author | Scott O'Dell |
| ISBN | 0449703401 |
Bright Dawn was a teenaged Eskimo girl. Black Star was her part-husky, mostly wolf, pet. Together they were about to begin the famous Iditarod dogsled race through the bitter cold of Alaska. Bright Dawn knew they would win, but she didn't count on the cold, blinding whiteout, the belligerent bull moose,...
