Fox Makes Friends

Please understand that my son did not even acknowledge there were other children at the library story time until he had been going for approximately one year. The presence of the other children either: 1) totally blew his mind and he couldn't process it; or 2) dismayed him through watching their unpredictable behavior. Now understand, this child has been around people from the very start (we have a big family), and he gets along well with adults. But he doesn't click well with other kids, and the idea of making friends with one of these specimens was really too much for him to imagine at age 4. But this book, with its pun on "making" friends, really clicks with him. It sort of lit the light that doing stuff alongside another person is a first step to friendship. The ending line, that they stayed friends forever, I just gloss over -- this child comprehends "forever" and would scoff at the very notion that a predator and two prey animals would stay friends through the next snack time, let alone forever. We still read it. It is very well illustrated, and we all need reminders about making friends through being friends.

This is the best children's book I have read in years. Adam Relf is very talented. I have ordered and preordered his other two books.

My daughter loved this book at 5 years old and still loves it at 6. She loves the wonderful illustrations and the story of friendship. She has labeled this one as one of her favorites. I love the large pictures - it was perfect to read to her Kindergarten class in the Fall. Even my youngest daughter at 2 1/2 loves it. I highly recommend it.

This is one of the sweetest children's book I've ever read. It writing and art have such an innocence unlike anything in today's world. It's definitely a book for kid's of all ages.

This is a very sweet book about a little fox who sets out to literally make a friend with sticks and such. In the process other critters lend a hand and eventually Fox ends up with quite a few real friends. My son is two and a half and just learning how to make friends. We are voracious readers and this is not an overdone subject. Plus, it is very applicable to a child's social development. Besides, I liked it, too.