Laura Marsh - National Geographic Readers: Foxes (L2)

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Professor of Reading Education
University of Maryland, College Park

For the students and teachers at the
Haley School in Boston, MA L. M.

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The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge
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conservation ecologist (retired), Parks Canada, and
the literacy review of this book by Mariam Jean
Dreher, professor of reading education, University
of Maryland, College Park.

Authors note:

A red fox appears on the cover and table of contents
page. On the title page, the photo shows a fennec fox
in a zoo environment.

Photo Credits

DS= Dreamstime; NGIC=National Geographic
Image Collection; NPL=Nature Picture Library;
SS=Shutterstock
Cover, edevansuk/Getty Images; header
(throughout), vectortatu/SS; vocabulary art
(throughout), Sudowoodo/SS; 1, Juergen & Christine
Sohns/Minden Pictures; 3, Eric Issele/SS; 4-5,
Neil Wraight/DS; 6 (UP), Jaymudaliar/DS; 6 (LO),
Robert Harding Picture Library/NGIC; 7, Kevin
Schafer/NPL; 8 (LE), Holly Kuchera/SS; 8 (UP RT),
Outdoorsman/DS; 8 (LO RT), Chris Fourie/SS; 9,
Alexandr Junek Imaging/SS; 10-11, Foto 4440/SS; 12,
Norbert Rosing/NGIC; 13, Braam Collins/SS; 14 (UP),
Angelo Gandolfi/NPL; 14 (LO), Bildagentur Zoonar
GmbH/SS; 15, Sergey Gorshkov/NGIC; 16-17, Marcin
Perkowski/SS; 17, Kim Taylor/NPL; 18 (UP), Sergey

Gorshkov/NPL; 18 (CTR), Rolf Nussbaumer/NPL; 18
(LO), Warren Metcalf/SS; 19 (UP), Byungsuk Ko/SS;
19 (CTR), A_Lesik/SS; 19 (LO), Karine Aigner/NGIC;
20-21, Andrew Cooper/NPL; 20, Joel Sartore/NGIC;
22, Jane Burton/NPL; 23, Nigel Dennis/Science
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Picture Library/NGIC; 29, Klaus Echle/NPL; 30 (1
UP), AtWaG/iStockphoto; 30 (1 LE), Robert Harding
Picture Library/NGIC; 30 (1 RT), Wang LiQiang/SS; 30
(1 LO), Tzooka/DS; 30 (2), Erlend Haarberg/NPL; 30
(3 LE), Anneka/SS; 30 (3 RT), Pichugin Dmitry/SS; 30
(3 LO), Andrea Prandini/DS; 31 (4), Byungsuk Ko/SS;
31 (5), Bernard Castelein/NPL; 31 (6), Michael Elliott/
DS; 31 (7), Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images;
32 (UP LE), Joel Sartore/NGIC; 32 (UP RT), Lynn
Yeh/SS; 32 (CTR LE), Bildagentur Zoonar GmbH/SS;
32 (CTR RT), Kim Taylor/NPL; 32 (LO LE), Alexandr
Junek Imaging/SS; 32 (LO RT), Roy Toft/NGIC

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Marsh, Laura F., author. | National
Geographic Society (U.S.)

Title: National Geographic readers : foxes / by Laura
Marsh.

Other titles: Foxes

Description: Washington, DC : National Geographic
Kids, [2019] | Series: National Geographic readers
| Audience: Age 5-7. | Audience: K to Grade 3.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018057549 (print) | LCCN
2018058837 (ebook) | ISBN 9781426334931
(e-book) | ISBN 9781426334948 (e-book + audio)
| ISBN 9781426334917 (paperback) | ISBN
9781426334924 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Foxes--Juvenile literature.

Classification: LCC QL737.C22 (ebook) | LCC QL737.
C22 M364226 2019 (print) | DDC 599.775--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov
/2018057549

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A flash of orange and
white appears in a
field. It races toward
the woods. What is it?

Chances are, its a red
fox. You are lucky if
you spot one! Foxes
try to stay hidden.
They usually run away
when they see people.

The red fox is the most
common kind of fox.

When you think of
a fox, you probably
picture a red fox.
Red foxes live almost everywhere,
except South America, Antarctica
(ant- ARK- tik- uh), and parts
of Africa.

red fox

The swift fox lives on the grasslands
of North America.

But the red fox is just one kind, or
species (SPEE- sheez), of fox. There
are more than fox species.

The Darwins fox can be found only
in a few places in Chile.

What does a fox become
after its three days old?

Four days
old!