The main character of Fantastic Mr. Fox is an extremely clever anthropomorphized fox named Mr. Fox. He lives with his wife and four little foxes. In order to feed his family, he steals food from the cruel, brutish farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean every night. Finally tired of being constantly outwitted by Mr. Fox, the farmers attempt to capture and kill him. The foxes escape in time by burrowing deep into the ground. The farmers decide to wait outside the hole for the foxes to emerge. Unable to leave the hole and steal food, Mr. Fox and his family begin to starve. Mr. Fox devises a plan to steal food from the farmers by tunneling into the ground and borrowing into the farmer's houses. Aided by a friendly Badger, the animals bring the stolen food back and Mrs.…
"Yes. It’s about the enterprising and wonderful Mr Fox, whose family are starving in their burrow. He’s fed up of not having enough food to feed them. Mrs Fox asks him to go out and get some food and he comes up with a phenomenal plan to dig tunnels underneath three farmers—Mr Boggis, Mr Bunce, and Mr Bean—and steal chickens, ham, cider and lots of other goodies from them. Boggis, Bunce and Bean are furious about it and very nearly catch him, shooting off his tail in the process, but he and his sons prevail, they manage to get all the food and they have a wonderful big banquet right at the end. I grew up with Roald Dahl books, so most of these are based on my memories of what I really loved when I was little and that hasn’t really changed upon learning more about them. I’ve always really loved foxes, so I like a book about foxes. I grew up in a place where there were a lot of farmers, so I liked the idea of the foxes getting one over on the farmers. I found that quite funny. And I love the illustrations of Mr Fox. I really liked the idea of there being a really comfy, cosy den underneath my feet where badgers and foxes were having wonderful feasts. And I would never know what it was. I would never be able to go into the den, but I could imagine that it was there, this sort of underbelly of the countryside. And I also just really liked the idea of a clever Fox tricking lots of horrible people. I thought that was justified."
