Discriminating top juniors should enjoy [A Family of Foxes] as much as thirteen-year-olds, and teachers who care for children's literacy will take heart at this publication.

The superstitious islanders of Galway Bay hated and feared foxes so vehemently that the four boys needed considerable ingenuity, patience and sympathy to hide and succour the two silver foxes shipwrecked en route for the Dublin zoo. The vivid yet unusually gentle account of their stratagems, set against the atmosphere of island life—the wild sea wind, the clannishness, and the Irish folk-lore coupled with the harsh reality of living—mark this as another fine book by a first-rate writer.