Title: Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke
Author: Pamela Duncan Edwards
Illustrator: Henry Cole
Publisher: Harper Collins. 1995. ISBN 0-06-024925-0 (book link)
Genre: easy children's book - cartoony foxes
Synopsis: Five fox kits are instructed by their mother to go out and find food. Four of them decide to go visit a farm to raid the henhouse, but one of the foxes, Fosdyke, decides to stay home and cook French cuisine. This book has heavy iliteration on the letter F.
Notes: In case you didn't know, Yuoo himself happens to be a vegetarian, so he's always delighted to meet other vegetarian foxes.
Title: The Old Country
Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Illustrator: Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press. 2005. ISBN 1-59643-047-8 (book link)
Genre: juvenile; delightful but philosophical fairy tale - post-modern allegory
Synopsis: A young girl named Gisella sets out to hunt a fox who has been eating her family's chickens. However, in the forest she stumbles into a magical realm of fairies and talking animals. From this, she learns to see things from the fox's point of view. Meanwhile, Gisella's homeland is being ravaged by war, involving previously unheard of mechanical weapons. From this, the fox learns to see things from Gisella's point of view.
Notes: There are many things I like about furries and animal stories, but one thing I like in particular is that they can help us understand human nature: mourning its frailties and shortcomings, but celebrating its virtues and triumphs
The Fox's Egg, by Ikuyo Isami, 1989, Fukutake Publishing Co, ISBN 0-87614-339-7