Or what about these brilliant Story Cut Outs to Support Teaching on Fantastic Mr Fox? You can use them as decorations for your classroom, or why not cut them out and use them as puppets to put on a performance of the book and bring it to life? By doing this, you can teach your children all about performance and get them comfortable speaking and acting in front of others.

What I especially love is that the author shows a clever fox but not a malicious one. His characterization is entirely amiable (which is not always the case with stories about foxes).

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Fantastic Mr. Fox is a wonderful book to introduce young readers to the works of Roald Dahl. The story is not only entertaining but also provides opportunities to discuss themes like perseverance, cleverness, and family values. The story's rich vocabulary can also enhance students' language skills. What lessons can students learn from Fantastic Mr. Fox? Academy Awards nominees". AMPAS. Archived from the original on April 8, 2010 . Retrieved February 9, 2013.

Pols, Mary (November 13, 2009). "Wes Anderson's Return to Form". Time. Archived from the original on February 14, 2011 . Retrieved May 17, 2011. Badger is another character who lives under the ground. He and his family are negatively affected by the farmers waiting for Mr. Fox to come out of the hole, so Mr. Fox invites them to the feast he is organizing with the farmers' food. Rat

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Near the valley, in a hole under a tree, lived a family of foxes. The family consisted of Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, and their four children - the "Small Foxes" (7). Every evening, Mr. Fox would sneak into one of the three farmers' farms and steal food for his family. The farmers hated Mr. Fox and tried to catch him, but they never succeeded because Mr. Fox was clever and took precautions like waiting for the wind to blow away from him, so that they wouldn't smell him coming. One night, however, the farmers teamed up and devised a plan to find Mr. Fox's hole and wait outside it with guns. 3. The Shooting National Board of Review: Special Filmmaking Achievement award list". National Board of Review. Archived from the original on January 31, 2010 . Retrieved January 17, 2010. According to Time, the film is "both a delightful amusement and a distillation of the filmmaker's essential playfulness" [32] and was one of the ten best films of the year. [33] Cosmo Landesman of The Sunday Times said "having a quirky auteur like Anderson make a children's film is a bit like David Byrne, of Talking Heads, recording an album of nursery rhymes produced by Brian Eno". According to Landesman: In style and sensibility, this is really a Wes Anderson film, with little Dahl. It's missing the darker elements that characterize Dahl's books. There you find the whiff of something nasty: child abuse, violence, misogyny. Gone, too, is any sense of danger. Even the farmers, who are made to look a touch evil, don't seem capable of it. We never feel the tension of watching the Fox family facing real peril. The film certainly has Americanized Dahl's story, and I don't mean the fact that the good animals have American accents and the baddies have British ones. It offers yet another celebration of difference and a lesson on the importance of being yourself. But it does leave you thinking: isn't it time that children's films put children first? [34]

In 2012, Mr Fox appeared on a Royal Mail commemorative postage stamp. [1] Two audio readings of the novel were released, one with the author narrating, and another with actor Martin Jarvis narrating. So, all the underground dwelling animals get together for a heist. They end up making permanent tunnels to and from the farmer's stores...and creating a completely underground town so they can always live and mooch off the farmers. Instead of trying to negotiate (or even work for a living), the Fox family makes a run for it and they end up endangering all the animal families that live in the hill, the Badgers, the Weasels, the Moles, the Rabbits, etc. Their homes and children are at risk. Dellatto, Marisa (20 February 2023). "Roald Dahl Books Get New Edits—And Critics Cry Censorship: The Controversy Surrounding 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' And More". Forbes. Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. ISSN 0015-6914. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023 . Retrieved 27 February 2023.In 2009, it was adapted into a stop-motion animated film by Wes Anderson and included the voice of George Clooney as Mr Fox. The novel was also adapted into a musical in 2016, and an opera in 1998 which in 2019 was recorded by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera. Corliss, Richard (December 8, 2009). "Wes Anderson's Return to Form". Time. Archived from the original on June 23, 2011 . Retrieved May 17, 2011.