To start, in an alternate ending to the previous episode, Principal Krupp ends up in prison (“…a lot like being a student at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, except that the prison had better funding”).
Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty. Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. At times the action becomes more burden than forward momentum, but on the whole, this is a worthy follow-up, with a triumphant end attempting to answer the eternal quandary of safety versus freedom. Heidicker’s writing continues to shine, his poetic language depicting scenarios that will be too much for sensitive readers but will more than satisfy those with a taste for gore and tragedy. When Oleo escapes, he meets a family of orphaned, urban foxes whom he enlists in a quest to save his captured kin. Oleo, né O-370, is a fox with all the wildness bred out of him, and he and his family live in the relative safety of wire cages, heated by lamps, until they are turned into fox-fur coats. Readers don’t have to be familiar with the first volume to catch the thread of this sequel, and while there are some carry-over references (the yellow stench of rabies, a propagandized version of Beatrix Potter’s appearance), the terrors here are new and mostly a product of civilization.
Three young foxes come across an injured cousin, who spins them tales of fresh horror.
If they band together, they may just manage to defeat the evil forces that are alive in the woods.If you love to be a little bit scared, try Scary Stories for Young Foxes.The travails of Mia and Uly in Heidicker’s Newbery Honor novel, Scary Stories for Young Foxes (2019), have become cautionary, inspirational folklore for a new vulpine generation. Mia and Uly are both fox kits who get separated from the safety of their mothers. Another tells of the lovely teacher Miss Vix, who gets bitten by another fox and succumbs to the terrible “yellow”, also known as rabies.But heroes emerge from these stories as well. Another tells of the cruel Miss Beatrix Potter (yes, the children’s author), who kidnaps young foxes and other animals, writes a story about them and then has them stuffed. Scratch, who would kill the runt of his own litter. Each story sends one of the original seven foxes home, too scared to listen to any more. One story tells of the evil Mr. What follows are a series of stories about other fox kits. After waiting for their mother to fall asleep, seven little foxes sneak out into the night, and prepare to be scared.So begins Scary Stories for Young Foxes. But the old storyteller lives over in Bog Cavern and they are not allowed to go. Scary Stories for Young FoxesBy Christian McKay HeidickerOn a chilly autumn night, seven little foxes are eager to hear some scary stories.
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