Tom hasn't had luck in the past with animals, but this fox fascinates him, and he spends more time outdoors in hopes of seeing her again. For all you teacher friends out there- this book would be fabulous for teaching character development! Tom, from the town, is so excited by seeing the black fox with the green eyes that he goes out every day hoping to see her again. I am charmed when Mom chides Tommy, 'You don't try to like new things' and Tommy answers, 'You shouldn't have to try to like new things.

The men were scared at night afraid of possible attacks “frightful ditty ‘till day appears” meaning they could barely sleep with all the predators around them. In the text it coveys many diverse themes, but two main themes are what it means to be human and relationships between humans and wildlife. To begin, important theme that runs through the novel is the idea strong female characters like Taylor and Lou Ann. I believe the climax was when tom discovered the fox and he soon became so interested he would go out by the river just to sit and watch it. He is to be separated from his parents for such a long time because ‘they were going to Europe with about fifty other very athletic people, and they were going to bicycle through five countries and sleep in fields and barns’.Sometimes at night when the read is beating against the windows of my room, I think about that summer on the farm. I imagine when this book was first published in 1968 it was quite a hit, but now I’d say it’s just good, not necessarily great. Renata witnesses the birth of four chicks as their rosy eggs split open “like coats that are suddenly too small. I thought one time that if there was some way to turn your life ahead like a clock, then I would probably lose half my life turning it ahead to avoid waiting for things.

I did not like to open a bookcase, especially with someone watching, and know that I had to take one, HAD to. Fascinated, watching for the fox keeps him occupied the entire summer, as it just gets hotter and hotter, his 'aunt' gets crankier due to the heat, and their daughter Hazeline has her ups and downs with her fiance.The easy rhythm of the summer is broken one evening when Aunt Millie reports that one of her turkeys was stolen from its nest last night. The laughs are most frequent in the beginning, which gets a reader's attention, and the sly, slow build-up to the final black fox episode is as firm as you could ask for.