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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  Fox’s Quest
  
  Foxes of the Midnight Sun
  
  Book Two
  
  by
  
  K.R. Alexander
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by K.R. Alexander.
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Cover art by Angela Fristoe, Covered Creatively.
  
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  Chapter 1
  
  Night 5
  
  Toes on cool stones, slip, slide, splash, and hop back. Water roared in my
  ears. Could I make the jump? A fine boulder jutted just enough from the river
  to tempt my leap. Yes … I could make it.
  
  I focused, whiskers out, eyes narrowed, ears pricked, taking in every flicker
  of star, moon, and shimmer of reflections off the rushing river’s surface