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THE VICAR OF NIBBLESWICKE
THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND SIX MORE
Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox
illustrated by
Quentin Blake
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First published by George Allen & Unwin 1970

Published in Puffin Books 1974
Reissued with new illustrations 1996
This edition published 2007
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Text copyright © Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1970
Illustrations copyright © Quentin Blake, 1996
All rights reserved

The moral right of the author and illustrator has been asserted

Except in the United Slates of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of
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ISBN: 978-0-14-192984-2
To Olivia
Contents

1 The Three Farmers

2 Mr Fox
3 The Shooting
4 The Terrible Shovels
5 The Terrible Tractors
6 The Race
7 ‘We’ll Never Let Him Go’
8 The Foxes Begin to Starve
9 Mr Fox Has a Plan
10 Boggis’s Chicken House Number One
11 A Surprise for Mrs Fox
12 Badger
13 Bunce’s Giant Storehouse
14 Badger Has Doubts
15 Bean’s Secret Cider Cellar
16 The Woman
17 The Great Feast
18 Still Waiting