2016 is Foxy
The other day The Trend Whisperer (a new nickname I’m trying out for A Fuse #8 Production) mentioned that 2016 is the year of bears on rampages and blobfish. I can’t disagree.
But a recent conversation with Benji of Tales of an Elementary School Librarian had me thinking there should be another trend on our collective radar: foxes.
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Why foxes? Two of the most talked about middle grade novels of 2016 not only feature foxes as characters, but go inside their little orange fur-covered heads.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
But the foxiness doesn’t end there. Here are exhibits C-P, all arriving before the end of the year:
Any I missed?
Filed under: Articles
About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
SLJ Blog Network
The Rare Dual Cover Reveal: Mary Kay Carson Discuses Before It Was a Wildfire AND Before It Was a Hurricane!
Snowlands Volume 1 | This Week’s List
Goodbye for Now
From Policy Ask to Public Voice: Five Layers of Writing to Advance School Library Policy
PENGUIN TBR February 2026: THE MOON WITHOUT STARS, SUNDOWN GIRLS, THE CELESTIAL SEAS, and THE ESCAPE GAME
Kelly Yang on Storykind
ADVERTISEMENT
Foxheart by Claire Legrand is another one!
Couldn’t be happier. Foxes are awesome! I’ve already preordered 3 copies of You’re My Boo!
I’ll take that nickname, you betcha!
What about CRICKET SONG by Anne Hunter?
And, of course, this year’s smash hit film ZOOTOPIA features a lot of discussions of foxes as well.
I noticed that about foxes! Especially since, right after I finished Pax, I saw a couple foxes (first time ever) out my window.