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The fox went out on a chilly night

A traditional folk song which tells of the exciting chase that ensues when Mr. Fox raids the farm in order to feed his family.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Spier, Peter, 1927-2017 (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Edition:	First Revised Edition.
Subjects:	Foxes > Juvenile fiction. New England > Juvenile fiction. Caldecott honor book.
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Summary:	A traditional folk song which tells of the exciting chase that ensues when Mr. Fox raids the farm in order to feed his family.
Item Description:	"First published in 1961, half of the book's illustrations were in black and white... now Mr. Spier has taken up his brush and paints to add ... color."--Jacket
Physical Description:	48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9780385376167 0385376162 9780375972072 0375972072 9780440408291 (pbk.) 0385010656
Author Notes:	Peter Edward Spier was born in Amsterdam on June 6, 1927. His formal education ended in his early teens, about a year after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940. His father was imprisoned by the Nazis for an illustration of Hitler that speculated about what would have happened had he stayed a painter. Since the family was Jewish, they were all sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. They were liberated by the Soviet Red Army in May 1945. Spier returned to the Netherlands after the war and served in the Royal Netherlands Navy for four years before immigrating to the United States in 1951. He worked in advertising before he began to write and illustrate children's books. His books included The Cow Who Fell in the Canal by Phyllis Krasilovsky, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night, Of Dikes and Windmills, and Circus! He received the Caldecott Medal for Noah's Ark. He died of congestive heart failure on April 27, 2017 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography)