Review by Booklist Review
This warm fable follows a forest-dwelling fox who loves the familiar star who always lights his way. On pages decorated with William Morris-style motifs and flat blocks of color, Bickford-Smith cultivates a serene atmosphere, both in the spare text and meticulous artwork. Curlicues of ferns arc around one another, leaving rabbit shapes in the negative space a hint of the fox's prey. After the fox awakes to find his star missing, Bickford-Smith swaps the crisp white highlights of the opening scenes for dun gray, evoking a more somber mood. When the fox finds a secret message words carefully laid out in a blanket of strewn leaves the next page reveals a resplendent spread of midnight blue spangled with hundreds of stars. Not only has Fox found his friend, he has found many more. It's an unusual, pleasantly old-fashioned volume that doesn't quite seem right at home among the picture-book or graphic-novel sections, but thanks to the gorgeous production value and moving illustrations, readers won't mind where it's shelved, as long as they can find it.--Hunter, Sarah Copyright 2016 Booklist
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