Meanwhile, there's *lots* of detail in the pictures.
Then I recommend you read the text aloud, in that rhythm, singing if you can, or at least chanting.
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Not a quick read! First I recommend you read the music in the back, if you know how, or at least find a video on youtube, so you know how to read the text. It was a surprise to myself, personally, when the fox returned home and we saw that he was providing for his family and all of his children and I felt torn on whether or not he was the bad guy.
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The color also added warmth to the fox when he is sitting by the fire, as his children nibbled on the bones after the meal, there stomachs' full from their father's hunt. The pages in black and white brought on an ominous, sinister tone to the story, which was actually an old song, while the pages in color would seem to pop even more climactically and vividly. This twist questions the emotions felt about the fox, having him going from a sneaky predator to a providing father. How the fox is simply providing for his family, like any father would. But as the story progressed to the fox returning home to feed his family with the food, you see the other side to this story. This seemed odd when reading about the fox leaving his home and stealing the goose and the duck from the farmer. Then there would be entire pages of black and white. There would be beautiful landscapes of the New England Fall landscape, trees with leaves of all shades, from red to orange to yellow. The book had an interesting concept, considering illustration, where every other page was in color and the pages in between were drawn in just black and white. Wonderfully detailed ink sketches in black and white alternate with vivid water-colored ones. Giggle Gaggle, a name that also appears on a tombstone in the cemetery, because old mother Giggle-Gaggle is the citizen that raise the alarm about the raid, causing the fox to get out of town fast, and home to his family feast in a den furnished remarkably like those of the town’s residents.
The book is filled with details of grinning foxes, startled geese, the autumn countryside in moonlight, shocks of corn drying in the field, a covered bridge, tobacco drying in barns, an old graveyard, the town square with its civil war memorial inscribed with the town’s old family names, names like like Andrews, Jones, Perkins, and Giggle Gaggle. The result is a lively mixture of realism and humorous fantasy. This American folk song about a fox’s raid on a poultry house in town is illustrated in lush detail by Spier based on extensive sketches he made on a field trip to southern New England.
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