By spreading out the reading of this book, even though the actual time spent reading it was the same, we revisited the characters several times, which forced us to review and remember what we already knew about them and the story. And the truth is, when you spend more time with characters, you remember them better. It would have just been a little spark along our reading continuum, nestled between books that took us several days or weeks to finish. If we had read it all at once, I'm afraid we would have forgotten it pretty quickly. And now, in retrospect, I'm kind of glad.
However, with the start of school, we didn't have a long afternoon to devote to it, so we read it in four installments instead. The chapters are short, the pictures are frequent, and the pacing is quick. Fox for nothing.Īt under one hundred pages, this is a short book that could easily be started and finished in a single afternoon. Fox's tail (a loss he mourns for the rest of the book) before he sees them and dives back into his hole.Īt that point, the game is on. Their plan is simple: surround his hole, wait for him to come out, and shoot him. They know the fox is the thief, and they devise a plan to put an end to him once and for all.
It's a pretty sweet gig, filled with variety and deliciousness.īut the three farmers have had it with the stealing. Fox, what she'd like for dinner, and then he goes and pilfers it off of one of the three farmers. The story begins by introducing the reader to three farmers: there's Boggis (an enormously fat chicken farmer), Bunce (a short, potbellied, duck and goose farmer), and Bean (a thin and clever turkey and apple farmer). In fact, all three older boys (Bradley included, which doesn't always happen) loved this book. Roald Dahl, you've worked a miracle.įantastic Mr. So the fact that he actually settled on a favorite author and that he's mentioned it several times and that it was not prompted in any way by me is actually pretty amazing. "Would you rather have a banana or a peach in your lunch?" Which would you rather I have? "Do you want to go to the pool or the library?" Hmmm, I don't know.) ("What was the best part of your day?" I didn't have a best part. He is unwilling to make a decision on just about anything. He seems to have inherited both Mike's and my non-committal gene, and, as the first child, it has compounded into something unmanageable.
This probably doesn't seem all that significant, maybe not even worth mentioning, except that Aaron never makes decisions about anything.
Aaron has informed me, on more than one occasion, that Roald Dahl is his favorite author.
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