Winner of the NZ Picture Book of the Year 1983
Grand Prix winner of the NOMA CONCOURS, Japan 1984
Art work exhibited in Seibu Department Store, Tokyo and at the Bratislava Biennale, Czechoslovakia
Named by the NZ Listener as one of the 10 Great New Zealand Children's books 1994

"One day Mr Fox found a fat juicy bumblebee, so he popped it in his bag. Then he walked and he walked until he came to the house of a little white woman." Mr Fox leaves his bag with the little white woman with instructions not to open it. But the little white woman does take a peep in the bag and the fat juicy bumblebee flies out and the plump red rooster gobbles it up. Mr Fox continues to visit a series of houses collecting things in his bag until he meets his match at the little golden woman's house."

Based on an old Massachusetts chain story, this story has been a favourite for many years.

Reviews

"The story provides a launching-pad for idiosyncratic illustrations which show Mr Fox's victims as human/animal forms used for implied social satire..The throw away effects of paint and design add up to a teasing, dramatic sequence that lifts the folk-tale away from its simple origins."

Margery Fisher, Growing Point, UK, May 1983