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The Adventures of Reddy Fox

The Adventures of Reddy Fox

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The Adventures of Reddy Fox

by Thornton W. Burgess

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  • Hardcover
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Vintage story book. Fair condition, missing dust jacket. Light wear to boards, with bumped corners and cardboard showing through; scuff upper right front. Red tweed boards with black illustration on the front, and black print on the spine; spine is scuffed at the name Reddy Fox and worn through to the binding. Illustrated end papers with characters from story; pages are clean and unmarked. 14 full page illustrations and 16 spot illustrations by Harrison Cady. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover, 1941 edition but later printing (from the style, probably in the 1950s), 192 pages. Illustrated by Harrison Cady. 12mo (5" x 7.5") Originally published 1913 by Little, Brown. 14th in the Bedtime Story-Books series. In this story, Reddy and Granny Fox must outsmart Farmer Brown's Boy who is out to get Reddy for stealing his pet chicken. Along the way, Reddy encounters many of the citizens of the Green Meadows and the Green Forest and with him we learn little lessons about life such as: the perils of being a show off; the importance of using all of one's senses; that it is a fine thing to show sympathy and kindness to others – even our enemies; and that the value of a grandmother's wisdom is inestimable.

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From the book:Reddy Fox lived with Granny Fox. You see, Reddy was one of a large family, so large that Mother Fox had hard work to feed so many hungry little mouths and so she had let Reddy go to live with old Granny Fox. Granny Fox was the wisest, slyest, smartest fox in all the country round, and now that Reddy had grown so big, she thought it about time that he began to learn the things that every fox should know. So every day she took him hunting with her and taught him all the things that she had learned about hunting: about how to steal Farmer Brown's chickens without awakening Bowser the Hound, and all about the thousand and one ways of fooling a dog which she had learned. This morning Granny Fox had taken Reddy across the Green Meadows, up through the Green Forest, and over to the railroad track. Reddy had never been there before and he didn't know just what to make of it. Granny trotted ahead until they came to a long bridge. Then she stopped.

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Bookseller
Bujoldfan US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
04102401burgess14ar
Title
The Adventures of Reddy Fox
Author
Thornton W. Burgess
Illustrator
Harrison Cady
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fair
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1941
Pages
192
Size
12mo
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Bedtime Story Books
Bookseller catalogs
Classic Childrens books;

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Fair
is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Fine
A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
12mo
A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....

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