Resources/activities: learn to sing the song – music in the back of the book discuss how a folk song might be different than a pop song, and list songs a family might enjoy singing on a car ride (just as the author and his wife sang this one!), as well as other activities we engage in to pass the time. Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night Hardcover Januby Wendy Watson (Author) 3 ratings Hardcover 6.59 13 Used from 3. Beautiful illustrations evoke a wily fox as he roams a sleepy New England town in search of a meal for his family, with tones and textures that are so vivid you. Though never out-of-print, this reissue is now full-color, as the illustrator was asked to add to the black and white spreads of the original book – over fifty years later! I enjoy both versions.
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I like this book because: my sister used to lead us in song on long car rides while we were growing up, and one of our favorite drives was to go leaf peeping in New England, specifically into Connecticut, every Columbus Day. One of Johns SongTales series of classic and folk songs & rhymes that supplement his First Steps In Music Curriculum. The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night is one of the most enduring of children’s folk songtales, with roots dating back to England some 500 years ago and recorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary, Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, The Smothers Brothers, and many more. Summary: (from my library catalog) The countryside of New England is depicted in the pictures accompanying this folk song in which a fox travels many miles to get dinner for his wife and ten cubs. The Fox went out on a chilly night an old song by Peter Spier and Tom Chapin 5.
Opening: The fox went out on a chilly night, and he prayed to the moon to give him light,for he’d many miles to go that night before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o…
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young readers, 1961, 2014
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