Fox Books

In the days before motorized vehicles and tractors, city businesses and rural farms were powered by horses. Draft Horses, Light Horses and everything in between were harnessed to the plow, express wagons (think UPS with horses) and even houses. Charles ("Chappie") Fox sheds a spotlight on all aspects of the horses of yesteryear; from the building of the vehicles, the equipment and stables, to the hitches used for advertising to the circus, farm and fire horses. Take a nostalgic look back or discover a little bit of history with this Beautiful! book- full of illustrations, paintings and photographs, along with well written and informative captions and commentary from a man who knows the business inside and out. My copy is well worn and well cherished! A fantastic gift for any horseperson, regardless of their chosen discipline.

I'm old enough to remember at least one horse-drawn vehicle on the streets of Detroit: Joe's Vegetable cart used to stop at our house every week. I have no idea what kind of vegetables Joe sold. I only remember the horse. Now that I'm living upstate near a small town, horses are back on the highways again pulling Amish rigs. I have it on good authority that the Amish are buying up the local farms and making a go of them with horse-power, after the more mechanized farmers went out of business. Perhaps we discarded the nutmeat with the husk when we fell in love with gasoline-powered vehicles at the beginning of the last century.

This book takes a nostalgic look back to those times when horses moved freight, delivered milk, ice, and coal, and clattered over city streets pulling six tons of fire equipment. It is filled with black-and-white photographs, drawings, and reproductions of ads for such items as the 'Studebaker Station Wagon' (horse-drawn, of course!). You could even hitch your horses to one of three different sizes of air calliope, and entertain your whole village in the days before boom boxes.

Even readers who do not love or own horses might be interested in how the vehicles were built and sold, how the horses were stabled in cities, or what rules the wagonmen were supposed to follow when delivering their freight.

For those of us who do love horses, this book is an absolute mine of details about the draft horses and mules that were used to haul the grapes from the vineyards, the circuses to towns, and ice, furniture, and food to householders.

One of the many interesting photographs shows over fifty draft horses lined up outside their four-story horse hotel in Charlottenburg, Germany. However, most of the other illustrations originated in America. The text is quite interesting, too. This bit of doggerel appeared in the August 16, 1899 issue of the "Breeders Gazette:" "One white foot - buy him/ Two white feet - try him/ Three white feet - deny him/ Four white feet - throw him to the crows."

Returning to the economics of horse-drawn versus gasoline-powered vehicles, the J.M. Horton Ice Cream Co. of New York had this to say: "We can run a two-horse rig at a cost of $15 a day including driver's wages. It costs us $25 a day to operate a truck."

Maybe the Amish have the right idea after all--and where is the gasoline-powered tractor that can reproduce itself?

Being somewhat of a fox afficianado myself, I've found how difficult it is to get any decent reference materials on these creatures. It seems that their slyness in nature has also led to their escaping the eye of the literary world, except as characters in children's books. (An alternate theory, which I firmly believe in, is that it's all just a conspiracy by the wolves.) This book, however, succeeds in capturing much of the beauty of these animals while also explaining much of the rigorous work that goes into their day to day lives. For anyone who is truly interested in the wonders of this oft-neglected creature, this is one of the best books for a general overview of their lives

Combine stunning photographs with beautifully written, well researched and concise text and you have The World of the Fox; this book is a MUST HAVE for any fox enthusiast, artist or admirer. For as much information on foxes as I have gathered over the years, this is by far and away my absolute favorite resource for practical information on specifics of the various vulpine (and alopex) spiecies.

It's also practical. I use it to teach writing and it really teaches people HOW to write -- I think because it treats the reader intelligently and really talks directly about all our mysterious places where writing comes from. I love this book.

This book helped me a lot to write my first novel. I think that all beginning writers should buy this book. It is well worth the price

at first, i was told to become a journalist by my dad because he's a famous journalist in my country. In the beginning, I thought of it as a burden because it wasn't my area. Then I read this book and suddenly, page after page, a light of my hidden talent started to emerge. Then, I finally realized that this is my fate and destiny, to become a journalist. This book is really helpful in anything that is related to being a journalist. All the tips, comments and necessary information was provided in this really fabolous book. I most definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to become and even to the ones who hates of being a journalist. Who knows? Maybe it's your hidden talent!

Now in an updated and expanded third edition, Writing The News: A Guide For Print Journalists, Walter Fox continues to draw upon his more than forty years of experience as a professional journalist, editor, communications specialists, and journalism educator to provide aspiring journalists and news writers with an introductory primer for their trade. Among the issues covered are writing the lead; story development, handling quotes, varieties of the basic structure of writing, examples for the contemporary press, feature narratives, and an enhanced chapter on news style. Writing The News is very highly recommended for students of print and media journalism, as well as article and reportage writing for magazines and periodicals.

This book is so cute and little and just right for my gift baskets and gifts for showers and such. I loved the simplicity of it. It is affordable for us tightwads. Thanks, twins!

I thought this book was going to be boring, but it wasn't t all! The author, Romy Fox, has written a sort of "Girlfriends' Guide to Back Pain" (although it's good for guys too), in which she gives you lots of standard (but good) advice on body positioning, exercise, proper lifting techniques, etc. But she also gives great info on reflexology, acupuncture, rolfing, reiki, homeopathy, magnets, DLPA and stress relief. I really liked this book and found it easy and fun to read. If your back hurts, here's a good place to start to solve your problem.

This is a great book one of America's great muralists. His artwork is beautifully reproduced and shows how current these murals are today. I wish they would have shown more of the murals he did at Fisk.

I FOUND THE INFORMATION I WAS LOOKING FOR, ABOUT SOME SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES FOR CASEIN DIFERENTIATION AND QUANTIFICATION.

Take a wild ride with roger and hal hunt and joyn them on ther osom edvenchers on diving edvenchers and amuzon edvenchers.what do they do?well do you want to find out well if you do then get the osom edvenchers of roger and hal hunt. then lets get going in the osom water splashing edvechers! My mom interdoosed me into thes osom serees I got sucked into it.I love them how about you? bye

While visiting Dan at his home and talking about his recent children's book The Adventures of Green Frog and Red Fox, I ask him if I could use his computer to write my review. I was able to read Green Frog and Red Fox to my 4yr. old and point out the various geometrical shapes in the illustrations.
He had fun finding the animals in all of the pictures
The four stories each had a life lesson. All of the images were vary creative and colorful. I would highly recommend this book for ages 4-9. I've never seen a children's book illustrated this way... Quite Unique...
Bobbie Smith