Fox Walked Alone - Barbara Reid

First published in Canada, 2006
Albert Whitman & Company, 2009
32 pgs
$16.99
For: Kids
Rating: 4.5 (Very cool illustrations, clever rhyming)
Endpapers: Lt. blue

Canadian author Barbara Reid creates scrumption pictures using plasticine clay. (Check out her website, which includes a couple of YouTube videos where you can watch her in action!) Told in rhyme, we accompany Fox, who, buy himself, joins pairs of animals on some sort of journey. Along the way they come to an abandoned city, where Fox frees a pair of doves. More and more pairs of animals join, until they arrive at a huge ark, where Noah waits for them. Here, Fox is joined by another fox that has been waiting for him. Cute and clever. The illustrations are amazing - especially after you watch Ms. Reid create them! She has a new book out, Perfect Snow, which I hope will be available in the U.S.