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.
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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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I thought this was going to be a really cute book on being fair, considerate, not cheating, etc.; you know, the basic lessons children need. Nope. What happens in the end after the animals all get cheated by Foxy? They rough him up by stuffing him inside a watermelon and playing football with him. That pretty much equivalent to beating someone up. Although I must admit there are times I think an adult needs a good beating, this isn’t what we should teach our children. Violence in any form really isn’t the answer.
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Yes my daughter and I absolutely loved this book!!!
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My kids loved it and as well as I did. Shows a way to learn to not cheat and be mean to others.
My child like it. As did i