Format:
Book
Author:
Saunders, George, 1958- author.
Title:
Fox 8 : a story / George Saunders ; illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Random House, [2013]
Description:
48 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Summary:
From the author of Lincoln in the Bardo...Fox 8 has always been the daydreamer in his pack. He learns to speak "Yuman" by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children's bedtime stories. When the building of a new shopping mall cuts off the pack's food supply, Fox 8 begins a harrowing quest to save the pack. -- adapted from jacket
Idealistic Fox 8's ability to communicate in "Yuman" cannot save his pack when their den and food supply are destroyed to build a mall, so he writes a letter asking for an explanation of human's cruelty.
Subjects:
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Language and languages -- Fiction.
Foxes -- Fiction.
Animal welfare -- Fiction.
Genre:
Fables.
Other Author:
Cardinal, Chelsea, illustrator.
Other Title:
Fox Eight
Notes:
"Originally published as an ebook in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2013."
LCCN:
2018016563
ISBN:
1984818023
9781984818027 (hardback)
Other Number:
1023858401
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
382421
Call Number:
FIC SAUNDERS 2018
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2