Scary Stories for Young Foxes

Name: Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Christian McKay Heidicker
ISBN: 9781980096979

Author: Christian McKay Heidicker

Series: Scary Stories for Young Foxes #1

Narrator: Christian McKay Heidicker

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/04/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories, Animal Stories, Horror Stories

Synopsis

A 2020 Newbery Honor Recipient! Christian McKay Heidicker, author of the Thieves of Weirdwood trilogy, draws inspiration from Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe for his debut middle-grade novel, a thrilling portrait of survival and an unforgettable tale of friendship. "Clever and harrowing."—The Wall Street Journal "Into the finest tradition of storytelling steps Christian McKay Heidicker with these highly original, bone-chilling, and ultimately heart-warming stories. All that’s needed is a blazing campfire and a delicious plate of peaches and centipedes."—Kathi Appelt, Newbery Award honoree and National Book Award finalist The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers for their flesh, a witch who tries to steal their skins, a ghost who hunts them through the snow … and other things too scary to mention. Featuring eight interconnected stories, Scary Stories for Young Foxes contains the kinds of adventures and thrills you love to listen to beside a campfire in the dark of night. Fans of Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Auxier, and R. L. Stine have found their next favorite book. A Booklist 2019 Editors' Choice Selection

About Christian McKay Heidicker

Christian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. He is the author of the Newbery Honor-recipient Scary Stories for Young Foxes, as well as Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Cure for the Common Universe and Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower. With William Shivering, he wrote the Thieves of Weirdwood trilogy. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on December 03, 2020

MAKE SPOOKTOBER GREAT AGAIN!! this middle grade horror book is a hundred and a half times better and darker than anything i read during my own middle grade years. it's a framed tale of seven fox kits who, one chilly autumn night, are hungry for scary stories—far scarier than the babyish ones their de......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on January 28, 2021

4.5 stars! Final review first posted on FantasyLiterature.com: One chilly autumn night, seven fox kits beg their mother for a scary story, “so scary our eyes fall out of our heads.” Don’t go to the Bog Cavern, she tells them, because the old storyteller lives there, and the tale she would tell them w......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on June 13, 2019

Horror. Kids eat that stuff up with a spoon. At some point in a human life, a little switch gets flipped in the brain and suddenly, instead of dreading that moment at night when you clutch your bed sheets and pull them over your head, you seek it out. And book publishers, realizing that kids love sc......more

Goodreads review by Maryam on January 26, 2020

What am I supposed to do with my life now? Huh? Where was this treasure when I was 10? WHERE. I'm salty (from bitterness as well as tears) and I hate you and I will get back to you tomorrow about all the reasons you need this book in your life, and all the reasons you don't—which are none. RTC tomorro......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on January 17, 2019

I love foxes. I just . . . I love them so much, guys! So every time I find a picture book about foxes, or there's a fox in any kind of book I have to have it, and I'm so excited! But then often sad. Not so much in the picture books, but in the middle grade books where foxes DIE all the time and it's......more