A Fox Found a Box by Ged Adamson - ADVISABLE

A Fox Found a Box by Ged Adamson.  PICTURE BOOK. Schwartz & Wade (Random), 2019.  $18. 9781984830531

BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K, EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

While fox is looking for food, he finds instead a box - a box that makes sounds.  Those sounds make the forest animals feel things - good things! Then one day the box stops working, no matter what the animals try.  In the silence, however, they find the natural music of the forest.

Without being heavy handed, Adamson’s story promotes the beauty that is found within the kind of silence that allows us to hear the sounds of nature. I don’t know if this will encourage people to turn off the ever-present noise machines, but the book is lovely.

Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS