Fox's Dream

Rating:
Summary: Fantastic! One of the most beautiful books I've read!
Review: Fox's Dream is visually stunning! Mr. Tejima made the animals very lifelike and they were all illustrated beautifully. One of the things that I loved about this book, besides the characters, was its realistic environment-how in the Fox's memory of his childhood in the spring, it was very much like you were in a green meadow with the glowing sun and its warmth. The environments made you feel that way. The text was also well used in conjunction with the illustrations. I'd recomend this book to anyone and, if you like foxes, winter, or just beautifully made books, this is a must read.

Rating:
Summary: Powerful.
Review: The illustrations and images shown as you flip through the pages are the kind that you remember as a kid, and it always stays somewhere in the back of your brain until you notice it lying on the ground, under a stack of books on the floor, and you pick it up and read through again. Then, you remember how you felt the power of the images go through you.
It may be a simple children's book in terms of the language and vague story, but the ice forest, fox pictures, and most of all the picture of the 3 brothers leaping in the sun, all seem as if they are the very essence of all them made into picture form.

Buy it for your kid, or for yourself.