Thanks to Stephen Miller for helping us fill out our database with this classic children’s literature title, The Fox and the Hound, by Daniel P. Mannix. Stephen’s review of it at his Travels with Tio website.
“The Fox and the Hound” is perhaps the best animal story I’ve ever experienced. It’s author, Daniel Pratt Mannix (1911-1997), was an American journalist, photographer, film maker, sideshow performer, animal trainer, and brilliant writer. His books cover a wide diversity of subjects with titles including “Memoirs of a Sword Swallower,” and “The Backyard Zoo.” His animal stories were lauded for the unique voices he gave his characters. These stories foretold the environmental consequences of human interference with the balance of the Natural world.
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ISBN-10: 0671772724
ISBN-13: 9780671772727
Goodreads: 1322303
Author(s): Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 9/11/1967
Tod, a red fox kit, is raised as a pet but returns to the wild to do what all foxes are born to do ― explore, trot along fence posts, cross icy streams, define his territory, mate, hunt, bury corpses for a rainy day, and, most of all, out-smart his enemies. Tod, in fact, is so sharp-witted and cunning, dauntless and valiant, that his ability to defy death becomes legendary. Copper, a half-bloodhound tracker, is the dog who lives to hunt the fox and, along with his beloved master, embarks on a lifelong quest to end the life of the elusive Tod.
Described from an animal's perspective, the paths of the fox and the hound overlap and intersect in a world teeming with scent and sound and sight and instinct ‐ vivid, gripping, and absorbing, their story is so arresting and unflinching that the the reader's awareness of wildlife and the essence of their domain may be reshaped and refined and, in the end, irrevocably changed.
Winner of the Dutton Animal Book Award in 1967, the Athenaeum Literary Award, and a Reader's Digest Book Club selection. The Fox and the Hound also became an animated Walt Disney movie and a box office success.
Does anyone know the value of a first edition of this book? I have it sitting on my bookshelf now.
I would check with a book dealer.