Prepare to be scared.Ī 2020 Newbery Honor Recipient! Christian McKay Heidicker, author of the Thieves of Weirdwood trilogy, draws inspiration from Bram Stoker, H. Award-winning author Christian McKay Heidicker once again surprises, delights, and terrifies with eight interconnected stories inspired by classic and modern horror tropes and paired with haunting illustrations from Junyi Wu. That’s where they encounter O-370, and where they’ll need to fight for their lives against mad hounds, killer robots, and the most dangerous of all creatures: humans. Forced to flee their den, they travel to a terrifying new world: the City. In a nearby suburb, young Cozy and her skulk are facing an unknown danger, one that hunts foxes. When O-370 gets free of his cage, he witnesses the gruesome reality awaiting all the Farm’s foxes and narrowly escapes with his life.
But on the Farm, foxes know only the safety of their wire dens and the promise of eternal happiness in the White Barn. Fox kit O-370 hungers for a life of adventure, like those lived long ago by Mia and Uly.
This book is not an easy read academically or emotionally, but it's intensely rewarding and thought provoking.From Christian McKay Heidicker, author of the Thieves of Weirdwood trilogy, comes the heart-stopping companion to the 2020 Newbery Honor recipient Scary Stories for Young Foxes, chronicling the adventures of three fox kits desperate to survive the terrors of a frightening new world. None of the violence or pain is gratuitous, though: The hunts, the methods of survival, the dominance of some and shunning of others are all accurate, and the violence is similar to that of realistic nature shows. The book is layered and complex, combining themes of domestic violence, bullying because of a disability, shame, fear, and pain with the deep love between a mother and her kits, and the growing loyalty between friends. It's a gorgeously written, no-holds-barred set of intertwining horror stories centering on Uly and Mia, two young foxes separated from their litters and in constant fear of death. Parents need to know that Christian McKay Heidicker's Scary Stories for Young Foxes, illlustrated by Junyi Wu, is a 2020 Newbery Honor Book.
At one point, he has one of her kits in his mouth and is going to kill her if the mom doesn't toss Uly off a cliff.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. He later tells her he'll let her children live if she abandons them and comes to live in his den. She sneaks away to keep all her kits safe. He tells Uly's mom to kill him because he has a deformed leg. The father marks his vixens with a bite from their ear.
Young foxes chased from their dens, sibling bullying, death, imprisonment, and the fox version of domestic violence. Almost a constant stream of terror and peril for the foxes, all within the realm of nature.
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