Survival: Could You Be a Fox?

by Roger Tabor, Dee Morgan (Illustrator), Fiona Pragoff (Photographer)

As a fox pursuing its daily life, the reader makes choices that will either insure its survival or cause its death. The text is conceived as a survival game with points given for correct choices.

28 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

A game that allows you the chance to be a young red fox going around the survival of the day whether finding something to eat, laying around or playing with your sister. Do you have what it takes to make it back to the den so you can start your day all over again?

My main issue with this book is the fact that the fox is the one that has become the neighbor to the farmer and the constant pest of the same farmer plus a city-edge fox. It was in my hope the book would follow along in the steps of the deer one as a wild fox but that wasn't to be the case.

Generally you are given small trivia facts about the eating habits of the fox, the dangers and its family life as it makes it through each choice you choose. Points are given or taken away depending on the result of your decision. And you will have a chance to start over unlike my poor fox who was mutilated by a sneaky farm dog even though it escaped :(

[Amanda Dickson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book when I was 8 or 9. I loved it so much that I had to buy it when I saw it online as an adult.