Work · Novel · 1970

Fantastic Mr Fox

Roald Dahl, author · Donald Chaffin, illustrator

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin (UK) / Alfred A. Knopf (US)
Units: 18 chapters

An eighteen-chapter children's novel in which a clever fox and his family, besieged underground by three vengeful farmers, tunnel their way to a permanent, well-fed life beneath the farms that hunted them.

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Novel 1970 → Film 2009 · Direct adaptationFantastic Mr Fox to Fantastic Mr. FoxThe film keeps 14 of the novel's 18 chapters, among them the three farmers, the siege, the tunnel raids, and Bean's cider cellar, and adds ten invented arcs around them, including a newspaper job, a cousin rivalry, and a supermarket ending.74composite · editorial

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