This book by Isabel Thomas and illustrated by Daniel Egnéus is a visually fantastic and lyrical ode to that darkest and greatest most mystical of natural forces; death.* It follows the life cycle of a mother fox raising her litter - and trusting their instinct to persist their foxy little lives even after their ma gets [SPOILER WARNING] got and becomes food for the worms, flies, and fungi. Probably not a book for every kid but ones that are interested in nature will love the pictures and learn to fear the Reaper less should they give this one a chance.
* Not quite as comprehensively as certain other books lobbed at the younger audience, but the upshot of how it's pulled off in this one is far less morbidly humourous and instead performs more like a sanitary duty to the kids' psyche with an adroit and non-scary inspection of Death as Natural... just part of the circle of life!
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