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Crabtree Publishing Company

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Fox Family

Adventures

Bobbie Kalman

Crabtree Publishing Company

www.crabtreebooks.com

Author

Bobbie Kalman

Photo research

Bobbie Kalman

Editors

Kathy Middleton

Crystal Sikkens

Design

Bobbie Kalman

Katherine Berti

Print and production coordinator

Katherine Berti

Photographs

Animals Animals: Maier, Robert: page 5 (bottom)

Corel: page 22 (top)

Superstock: Radius: page 17 (top); Brian

Bevan/ardea.com/Pantheon: page 23 (top)

Thinkstock: pages 5 (top), 27 (coyote), 30, 31

Cover and other images by Shutterstock

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Copyright 2016 CRABTREE PUBLISHING COMPANY .

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Kalman, Bobbie, author

Fox family adventures / Bobbie Kalman.

(Animal family adventures)

Includes index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-7787-2232-8 (bound).--ISBN 978-0-7787-2240-3

(paperback).--ISBN 978-1-4271-1714-4 (html)

1. Foxes--Juvenile literature. 2. Foxes--Infancy--Juvenile

literature. I. Title.

QL737.C22K337 2016 j599.775 C2015-908698-1

C2015-908699-X

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kalman, Bobbie, author.

Title: Fox family adventures / Bobbie Kalman.

Description: St. Catharines, Ontario ; New York, New York : Crabtree

Publishing Company, [2016] | Series: Animal family adventures | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016008885 (print) | LCCN 2016012797 (ebook) | ISBN

9780778722328 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper) | ISBN

9780778722403 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781427117144 (electronic HTML)

Subjects: LCSH: Foxes--Behavior--Juvenile literature. | Foxes--Juvenile

literature.

Classification: LCC QL737.C22 K3554 2016 (print) | LCC QL737.C22 (ebook) |

DDC 599.775--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016008885

Created by Bobbie Kalman

Dedicated by Judy Cooper

To my very special grandson Hayden

With all my loveNannie

Synchred Read-Along Version by:

Triangle Interactive LLC

PO Box 573

Prior Lake, MN 55372

ISBN-13: 978-1-68444-639-1 (e-book)

What is in this book?

Meet the fox kits! 4

Body changes 6

Out in the world 8

Fox habitats 10

What will they see? 12

Having fun playing 14

Family members 16

What do they mean? 18

Learning to hunt 20

All kinds of food! 22

Autumn and winter 24

Did you know? 26

Match them up! 28

Draw some foxes! 30

Words to know

and Index 32

Meet the fox kits!

Spring is here, and four fox babies, called

kits, are born to a red fox mother we

shall call Dena. They are born in a

nursery den , a big hole dug under

the ground. Foxes are animals

called mammals. Mammal mothers

make milk in their bodies that

they feed to their babies. The kits

depend on Dena to feed them milk

and keep them warm. She does not

leave her babies for the first two weeks.

Other foxes in Denas family bring her food.

After two weeks, Dena leaves the

den for a short time each day. Her

kits, Sam, Fred, Bonnie, and Kate,

are still too small to go out of the den.

They snuggle close to one another

and wonder where their mother

went. They are getting hungry

and hope she comes back soon.

Body changes

When they are born, fox kits have brown fur, short noses,

small ears, and they are blind and deaf. Their eyes and ears

open about two weeks later, and then they can see and hear.

Soon, their noses and ears will grow longer, too, just like Denas.

Did you know that foxes have whiskers on their legs as well as

on their faces? Whiskers help them find their way in the dark.

Foxes molt , or lose their fur, in spring, and grow thinner

fur for the summer. Dena is losing much of her fur now.

Her kits are still brown, but at five weeks, longer red

fur will grow through their short brown fur.

Out in the world

The kits are now a month old. On a warm sunny day, Dena

brings them out of the den for the first time. The pups must

climb up through a tunnel that leads out of the den and learn

to walk on the ground outside. Sam, Bonnie, and Kate have

made it out. Fred is behind them. The sun is bright. The kits

keep their eyes straight ahead and do not look up.

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