Puffin Fantastic Mr Fox

My daughter thoroughly enjoyed reading it

The book is nice but a little bit disappointing about the illustrations.

This was a great purchase and kept my son happy and confident with his reading. Nice story and great condition.

A classic - kids love it.

Ah, how I love Roald Dahl. I recently reread Boy and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, so I figured it was time to reread some more of his children's books, all of which I love. Fantastic Mr. Fox is a short, but really clever and entertaining book. It is the story of "Fantastic" Mr. Fox, and his ongoing battle against Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, three farmers who despise him because he always steals poultry from them. In Fantastic Mr. Fox, they are determined to dig him out and then wait him out. Mr. Fox also has a wife and four small children to protect. In many of Roald Dahl's books, it's about the children outwitting the grown-ups. In Fantastic Mr. Fox, we have instead a clever animal outwitting a bunch of stupid and mean adults. Fantastic Mr. Fox isn't my favorite Roald Dahl book (that honor would probably go to Matilda), but it's certainly a book that I love and enjoy. I probably reread this book in about ten or twenty minutes. It's short, and the font is really big. Plus, a lot of space is covered by some pretty good illustrations (by Quentin Blake). So this whimsical book is perfect for reading aloud or for just reading in a few minutes for some fun. It's not laugh-out-loud funny, but it's pretty entertaining. There was a movie made of it in 2009, and I saw some of it on a flight when it came out, but I don't think it did this amazing book justice. Fantastic Mr. Fox is just too short for a movie, so they had to add a whole bunch new things into the movie, and none of it has the sheer genius of Roald Dahl. To be fair, I haven't seen the movie in a while.

このCDは2枚組で、Fantastic Mr. Foxの全文が朗読されている。構成はCD1が14 tracksで原書の1~14章（1章1 track）まで、CD2が15^18章になっている。だからCD1が14 tracksあるが、CD2にはたったの4 tracksしか入っていないことになる。こういう時は、大抵、trackの区切りを章や段落を無視して、朗読のスピードも無理やり速くしてCD1枚に収めようとするものだが、このCDセットにはそれがなく、あくまでリスナー・フレンドリーな比較的ゆっくりの速度で明瞭な発音、適度な効果音、で朗読されており、子供が聴くことを重視した構成になっている。いいと思うな・・・こういう構成。無理やりCD1枚に全て御押し込もうとして、聴きにくい詰込み朗読にすると、ダールの作品の雰囲気が台無しだもの。結果として英語学習者のリスニングの教材としてもいいものになってます。お勧めです。この商品の他のコメントに「CDが4枚で4つのストーリーが入っている」とありましたが、あれは同じタイトルの別の商品でしょう。このCDセットはCDは2枚だけで、ストーリーはFantastic Mr. Foxだけです・・・念のため。

Un vrai bijou ! L’univers est original, l’humour décalé, et le style d’animation (ou l’écriture si c'est le livre) est unique. Mes enfants comme moi avons adoré. Un plaisir pour petits et grands, à voir ou à lire sans hésiter !