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The Fox and Me Jane

The Fox and Me Jane


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A graphic novel about bullying, body image and the transformative power of fiction. Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies -- Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane's tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this wonderful book, she is able to ignore her tormentors. But when Hélène is humiliated on a class trip in front of her entire grade, she needs more than a fictional character to see herself as a person deserving of laughter and friendship. Leaving the outcasts' tent one night, Hélène encounters a fox, a beautiful creature with whom she shares a moment of connection. But when Suzanne Lipsky frightens the fox away, insisting that it must be rabid, Hélène's despair becomes even more pronounced: now she believes that only a diseased and dangerous creature would ever voluntarily approach her. But then a new girl joins the outcasts' circle, Géraldine, who does not even appear to notice that she is in danger of becoming an outcast herself. And before long Hélène realizes that the less time she spends worrying about what the other girls say is wrong with her, the more able she is to believe that there is nothing wrong at all. This emotionally honest and visually stunning graphic novel reveals the casual brutality of which children are capable, but also assures readers that redemption can be found through connecting with another, whether the other is a friend, a fictional character or even, amazingly, a fox. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

About the Author :
Fanny Britt is a playwright, author and translator. She has a dozen plays to her credit. She has also translated over fifteen contemporary plays and several other works of literature. She writes children's books and has published, among others, the Félicien series with La Courte Échelle. Jane, the Fox and Me is her first graphic novel. She lives in Montreal with her family. Isabelle Arsenault is a very talented Quebec illustrator, who has garnered an impressive number of awards and international recognition. She has illustrated several books, including Le coeur de monsieur Gauguin (Governor General's Award) and My Letter to the World and Other Poems (Governor General's Award Finalist, IRA Children's Choices), and she has won the Grand Prix for illustration (Magazines du Québec) for six years running.

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"A sensitive and possibly reassuring take on a psychological vulnerability that is all too common and not easily defended." -- Kirkus Review "Britt's poetic prose captures Hélène's heartbreaking isolation . . . [A] brutally beautiful story." -- Horn Book, STARRED REVIEW "Hélène's emotional tangle is given poignant expression through Arsenault's pitch-perfect mixed-media art...[Her] story is sweetly comforting and compelling." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, STARRED REVIEW "Loneliness is a language that doesn't need translation... it's a language understood by anyone who has endured the interminable wait for a Géraldine of her own." -- New York Times "More than a few readers will recognize themselves in Hélène and find comfort." -- Publishers Weekly "Readers will be delighted to see Helene's world change as she grows up, learning to ignore the mean girls and realizing that, like Jane, she is worthy of friendship and love." -- School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW "The theme is universal; girls, especially those who have been at the receiving end of negative comments, will relate to Hélène." -- Library Media Connections


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781554983605
  • Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • ISBN-10: 1554983606
  • Publisher Date: 19 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 104


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