City Foxes
Photographs: Wendy Shattil
Story: Susan J. Tweit
Alaska Northwest/ Denver Mus. of Natural History, 1997
Ages 5 and up, Clothbound, $16.95
Winner, Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children, Children's Book Council
Highly recommended! --Children's Bookwatch
This engaging book describes the lives of six young red foxes born in a city cemetery. ... The book is a beautiful blending of the talents of the author/naturalist and [the] first woman to be named Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Includes ecology notes and red fox facts for older readers. --- STARRED review, Science and Children
One cold March night six baby foxes were born in the midst of a busy city. Their home was a den dug by the parents, a grayish father fox and a rust-red mother fox, in the lawn at one edge of a cemetery. The young foxes--called kits--were born helpless and with their eyes shut tight.
At first the kits simply nursed and slept. But after their eyes opened, they began to explore the eden on wobbly legs. Soon they were playing, nibbling on each other or on their parents, and tumbling over one another.
One afternoon in early April when the kits were sleeping, the moter fox slipped out of the den. She had been inside with the babies for two long The father stayed behind, snoozing and watching the kits. The mother stretched out in the sun next to the den entrance and began to clean her fur. Lick, lick, lick went her tongue.
In the den, a baby fox woke, hungry. The kit searched around--no mother. ...
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