title: Wild Fox: A True Story
author: C. Mason
description: "Have you ever touched the nose of a wild red fox? I have." With this pleasingly disconcerting opening, Mason leads readers into the wonder of her relationship with an unexpected backyard visitant. When a maimed fox accepts her offering of chicken, Mason grows curious about her skittish forest neighbor and deliberates about how far she should intervene in saving his life. Vicky--as the fox comes to be called--savors Mason's treats (especially blueberry muffins), although he never abandons his wild nature. But one memorable night, as friends watch "the rippling pink and lavender curtains of the northern lights," the bushy-tailed animal joins the group--a leaping, somersaulting form among spellbound human shadows. Surrounded by Stammen's strikingly poignant and elegantly rendered pastel illustrations, the book's sustantial text rests not on poetic power alone, but also on the natural eloquence of a truly told event. Indeed, Mason checks tender yearnings with a conversational tone, weaving in pertinent facts and telling of experiences rather than of feelings, all of which lend force to the softly dramatic and bittersweet ending. Mason communicates her innate awe at reaching across the chasm that separates civilized intelligence from feral instinct, and her riveting book pinpoints that charged, mysterious intersection where humans can meet the wild without taming it. Ages 5-13. <br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Tale of Tommy Fox
  
  
  I. TOMMY ENJOYS HIMSELF
  
  II. JOHNNIE GREEN GOES HUNTING
  
  III. TOMMY FOX LEARNS TO HUNT
  
  IV. MOTHER GROUSE'S CHILDREN
  
  V. TOMMY FOX IS HUNGRY
  
  VI. MR. GRAY SQUIRREL'S MISTAKE
  
  VII. TOMMY CHASES MR. WOODCHUCK
  
  VIII. SOMETHING MAKES TOMMY VERY PROUD
  
  IX. TOMMY FOX IN TROUBLE
  
  X. MRS. FOX OUTWITS DOG SPOT
  
  XI. TOMMY GROWS TOO CARELESS
  
  XII. OLD MR. CROW IS PLEASED
  
  XIII. JOHNNIE GREEN AND HIS NEW PET
  
  XIV. TOMMY FOX MAKES A STRANGE FRIEND
  
  XV. JOHNNIE GREEN FEELS SAD
  
  XVI. TOMMY BECOMES BOASTFUL
  
  XVII. PAYING A CALL ON A FRIEND
  
  XVIII. THE WORLD TURNS WHITE
  
  XIX. TOMMY FOX LEARNS A NEW TRICK
  
  XX. THE DRUMMER OF THE WOODS
  
  XXI. THE BIGGEST SURPRISE OF ALL
  
  A WORD TO GROWN UPS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Tale of Tommy Fox
  
  
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  * I. TOMMY ENJOYS HIMSELF
  
  
  * II. JOHNNIE GREEN GOES HUNTING
  
  
  * III. TOMMY FOX LEARNS TO