November 7, 2009 (Catholic education, Catholic schools)

Fox Walked Alone
Barbara Reid
Scholastic
ISBN 9780545989985

Fox walked alone is Barbara Reid’s retelling of the story of Noah’s Ark. It is the story of Fox who follows the other animals even though they are traveling in pairs. It is incredibly well written and the illustrations are awesome. This will be a great book for children of all ages.

Famous for her plasticine illustrations, Canadian author and illustrator Barbara Reid is world renowned. Reid has won just about every Canadian award for children’s authors or illustrators. She won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Illustration for The Party and this book was nominated for 7 awards.

(Images courtesy Barbara Reid.)

Steven McEvoy works full time as an IT professional, but his passion is learning. As a result he is part time mature student at St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo Ontario in the Religious Studies Program.

His personal blog is http://bookreviewsandmore.ca/ This review was first posted on December 16 2008

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