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.

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?

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