Book Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl is one of my most favorite children's authors ever. Today I borrowed this lovely book from my niece to read and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. This is a story of a brave fox, his wife and their 4 baby foxes. They live happily under a tree in the jungle by a village. Mr. Fox takes good care of his little family by going to the village farms and bringing food from their by stealing hens, turkeys and geese. In fact, there happen to be three particular not so gentle men of whose farms Mr. Fox takes a liking to. They are called Boggis, Bunce and Bean. And these people, horrible as they are, do not approve of this even a little bit. Mr. Fox, however, proves to be a very clever young fellow and manages to take what he wants from them all the same. After some stealing sessions though, their patience fails them and they decide to hunt Mr. Fox down by surrounded his hole under the tree. Fox manages to evade all three of them and goes back deep into his hole but this makes them even more obstinate about catching him and they start digging his hole to catch him and his family. Worried for their lives, the family of foxes begins digging and digging relentlessly to escape the monsters at the end of the hole. However this makes the men ever more restless and they bring in more ammunition to aid their cause. Despite all their efforts though, Mr. Fox still not only outwits them all, but also manges to dig his way right upto their farms and steal more food than ever before! And not only that, he throws the grandest part for all of his animal friends and they end up having a jolly good time just because of the tenacity and obnoxiousness of Messrs Boggis, Bunce and Bean.

I enjoy reading Roald Dahl so much. I think he is the ideal children's book writer. The way he keeps everything so simple yet so humorous and interesting is just so much fun to read. I laughed, or rather chuckled, at so many spots. The way his characters are so humorous and witty makes me want to read him agai and again.

I also loved seeing the beautiful illustrations that this book has. It's just amazing how the thoughts of the writer have been reflected by the messy little drawings scattered all over the pages. I felt so eager to finish reading the page and look at how the illustrator has chosen to make a drawing to go with the writing.

If you have young children then you must get this one for them and read it to them every night. I'm sure they'll enjoy it and you will too 😊😊