Foxy Joxy Plays a Trick

Foxy Joxy plays a trick on the animals, so they decide to get even. A great early reader with lots of fun animal names, and a nice moral.

Another great free children’s book from BookDash

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution The book contains a lot of fun and colourful well drawn pictures that will keep the interest of young children.

Illustrated by Mdu Ntuli
Written by Nahida Esmail
Designed by Samantha Rice
Edited by Margot Bertelsmann
with the help of the Book Dash participants in Johannesburg on 25 February 2017.

Text and Images from Foxy Joxy Plays a Trick

Foxy Joxy was a sly fox.

He sold big, fresh
watermelons.

“Your price is
too high,” said
Rabbit Jabbit.

“You are asking too much,”
said Gia Giraffe.

Foxy Joxy had a clever idea.

He slit open a big watermelon, scooped
out the fruit, and gobbled it up.

Then he filled it with water!

He took a needle and thread and
sewed the watermelon back together.

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Books purchased from publishers cost too much. In order to distribute more books for South African children, Book Dash participants work as publishers in a single day, having a book with no publishers mean the book will be a lot cheaper the only cost will be printing the books. With these, anyone can run sponsored prints and the finished books can be handed to children.

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