Flossie and the fox

Duration: 10

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1991

Creator: Weston Woods

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This iconographic adaptation, narrated by the author and complemented by blues guitar music, is the story of plucky Flossie Finley, a young black girl who outwits a hungry fox. One hot Tennessee day, Flossie's grandmother, Big Mama, asks the girl to take a basket of eggs to a neighbor whose chickens have been frightened eggless by a marauding fox. She warns Flossie to beware of that ole slickster fox. Taking the cooler forest route, Flossie encounters the creature who eyes her basket greedily. I am a fox, he announces but Flossie disdainfully disbelieves him, saying that he does not exhibit any foxlike qualities. As they approach Miss Viola's farm, the fox wracks his brain to convince Flossie of his identity, but to no avail. Reaching the McCutcheon homestead, the fox is dispatched by a pack of fox-hating hounds. I am a fox, he cries desperately. I know, responds Flossie, having accomplished her mission with eggs intact. Genre/FormFilms for preschoolers, Fiction. , Iconographic. In the rich language of the rural South, author Patricia McKissack narrates the story of plucky Flossie Finley, who cleverly outwits a fox to protect the basket of eggs she must deliver to a neighboring farm, demonstrating along the way that things are not always the way they seem. An iconographic adaptation of the book.

Complete Record: This iconographic adaptation, narrated by the author and complemented by blues guitar music, is the story of plucky Flossie Finley, a young black girl who outwits a hungry fox. One hot Tennessee day, Flossie's grandmother, Big Mama, asks the girl to take a basket of eggs to a neighbor whose chickens have been frightened eggless by a marauding fox. She warns Flossie to beware of that ole slickster fox. Taking the cooler forest route, Flossie encounters the creature who eyes her basket greedily. I am a fox, he announces but Flossie disdainfully disbelieves him, saying that he does not exhibit any foxlike qualities. As they approach Miss Viola's farm, the fox wracks his brain to convince Flossie of his identity, but to no avail. Reaching the McCutcheon homestead, the fox is dispatched by a pack of fox-hating hounds. I am a fox, he cries desperately. I know, responds Flossie, having accomplished her mission with eggs intact. Genre/FormFilms for preschoolers, Fiction. , Iconographic. In the rich language of the rural South, author Patricia McKissack narrates the story of plucky Flossie Finley, who cleverly outwits a fox to protect the basket of eggs she must deliver to a neighboring farm, demonstrating along the way that things are not always the way they seem. An iconographic adaptation of the book.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.