The Fox On The Box

by Barbara Gregorich

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Genres: Childrens

16 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1984

About the author

Barbara Gregorich, who writes fiction and nonfiction for adults and for children, has in her writing career deliberately moved from one genre to another, writing about the things important in life — baseball, mystery, and social justice. Her seminal Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball won the SABR-MacMillan Award and laid the groundwork for other books on the subject. ​​​​​​​For her research and writings on women in baseball, Barbara Gregorich received the 2024 SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award.

A frequent presenter at Illinois libraries, Gregorich was appointed a 2013 Roads Scholar by the Illinois Arts Council. In 2021 City of Light published The F Words, whose story of ICE persecution of immigrants focuses on the resilience of working class teens. Exit Velocity features a young working class woman who encounters discrimination in the workplace and assault on the streets. As she fights for her rights, she is aided by a parrot from another planet.


For more information about Barbara and her books, visit her blog, Much to Write About, available on GoodReads.

Reviews

[Asa Jacobs]

This is a simple book that is great for emerging readers. The story is about a fox and the things he does on the box. Before the story begins there are notes for parents, which state goals and ways parents can improve their child's reading experience. The book shows the fox sitting, eating, and playing on the box. In the end the fox ends up under the box. At the end of the story there are instructions to have children add more pages to the book, thinking of more things the fox could do with the box. I really like that this book provides support for parents and teachers to enhance the books benefits even further for readers. Encouraging students to alter the story will have them seeing many other books in creative ways. I liked how simple and open ended this book was and feel it is great for emerging readers.

[CrazyMoo · Rating 5 out of 5]

The watercolor illustrations were brilliant. The sentences were short and sweet, had my kids giggling all over the place. Wanted to read more. Absolutely!

Thank you to the author for this book.

[Vivian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Before sharing this during a BOXES themed story time I found three nesting boxes and put a plush fox in the smallest one along with an emergent reader from the Waterford Institute very shortened version of the song "A-Hunting We Will Go". I put the boxes in my lap and recited "Here is a box, Let's open it wide, And we'll find out, What's inside.... 1, 2, 3!

We we opened the smallest box with the fox inside we sang the song and then I said the fox wants to hear this story. I had the plush fox do what the story fox did and paused to let the children say the prepositions "on" or "over" or "under".

[Sarah Ashburn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book to teach students to start to read. I really like how a lot of phonics books include different animals. I think that this makes it easier for teachers to come up with fun activities or teach about animals. This book has a lot of repetition and similar sounds making it great for beginning readers.

[Shanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although it was an extremely simple book, I thought it would be good to use in a beginning ESL environment. It would have to be used with other materials, but overall a nice authentic text.

[Constance · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple but superb! I actually learned how to read this book in Tagalog(aloud or silently.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

First book I read!

[Sophia Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book details the events the Fox experiences with the box. He sits on the box, eats on the box, played on the box and more. This is a great beginning rhyme book or a book for struggling readers.

[Liz Rapp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy reader- level 1

[Annburnett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute learning book for kids.

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 2 out of 5]

An old fashioned reader but with lovely illustrations. We will use it to translate into French for vocab practice.

[Mika Moss · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one is most definitely for kindergarten age kids learning to read, very simple words and no plot. The illustrations were very good and as a young kid it would be throughly entertaining, however it lacked majorly in plot of any kind. A kid could most likely read this alone, without help from adults, and most of the time a teacher needs that because they cannot attend to 32 kids at once - so I would highly recommend for teachers!

[Amanda Schwind · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rhyming fox/box, but not much else to this book...
Simultaneously, though, it reuses a very small amount of words to portray a story, which would be very beneficial for a student with a limited reading vocabulary.

Update: Could be used to introduce a lesson on preposition words.
On the box
Under the box
In the box
On top of the box
Etc...

[Schmobes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty easy, good for beginning readers. Kiddo liked it. Many pages have no words, just pictures. Kutey played "find the mouse" on each page.

[Beck · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a huge fan of the art, and there's no way a fox would play with a rabbit, squirrel and mouse.

But.

I did LOVE the final sentence.

[Sarah]

Not as much fun as the bear and the drum, this story is rather boring. The fox is around the box in various ways, until the box falls on him. The illustrations are also not as nice.

[Kristy Schwertfeger · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a good beginning book to use when starting rhyming. This book also introduces prepositions. This is a very simple book but can be used to activate a lesson.

[Vim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple interactive book for kids =]

[Savannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

My son is four and he picks books when we take trips to the library. He picked this one and although he is too young to read we still discuss rhymes and sounds.

[Dewi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ilustrasi yang menawan.
Cocok untuk anak-anak yang mulai belajar bahasa Inggris.

[William Bachmeyer · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was kind of good. I thought that it was a good book. The fox played with the box. That was kind of awesome. The book was funny. I liked when the fox jumped over the box. That was cool.

[Sasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

a nice short read for kids. this is how my daughter is starting to read.