2016 is Foxy

by Travis Jonker | Blogs
Apr 25, 2016 | Filed in News & Features
The other day The Trend Whisperer (a new nickname I’m trying out for A Fuse #8 Production) mentioned that 2016 is the year of bears on rampages and blobfish. I can’t disagree. But a recent conversation with Benji of Tales of an Elementary School Librarian had me thinking there should be another trend on our […]

The other day The Trend Whisperer (a new nickname I’m trying out for A Fuse #8 Production) mentioned that 2016 is the year of bears on rampages and blobfish. I can’t disagree.

But a recent conversation with Benji of Tales of an Elementary School Librarian had me thinking there should be another trend on our collective radar: foxes.

Why foxes? Two of the most talked about middle grade novels of 2016 not only feature foxes as characters, but go inside their little orange fur-covered heads.

Exhibit A:

Pax

Exhibit B:

Maybe a Fox

But the foxiness doesn’t end there. Here are exhibits C-P, all arriving before the end of the year:

AnimalsAreDelicious_CV 600 9781944020002_521b4 9780062393777_7a29b 9781442441606_76b28 9780545946124_52ab4 9780399176265_3aa86 9781454918707_95289 9781101918449_dc622 9781849763134_40d0b 9781554518463_6067e 9781250086563_dbb75 9781772780048_d1ef0 9780544707115_24977 9780062398741_7feef

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