{{One source|date=April 2026}} {{infobox book|<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books--> |name=Fox Tales |title_orig= |translator= |image=File:FoxTales.jpg |caption=First edition |author=Ruth Manning-Sanders |cover_artist= |illustrator=James Hodgson |country=United Kingdom |language=English |series= |genre=Fairy Tales |publisher=Methuen & Co. Ltd. |release_date=1976 |media_type=Print (paperback) |pages=95 pp |isbn=0-416-56010-5 }} {{Portal |Children's literature}}
'''''Fox Tales''''' is a 1976 anthology of 16 animal-centered fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders.<ref>{{cite news |author1=T. D. R. |title=Reading aloud |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/blaydon-and-tyneside-courier-reading-alo/196344763/ |access-date=26 April 2026 |work=Blaydon and Tyneside Courier |date=6 May 1976 |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> These tales are written for a slightly younger level of reader than Manning-Sanders' more familiar "A Book of..." series of fairy tales.
==Contents== *1. Terry Gong-Gong (Africa) *2. What did you do? (Africa) *3. The fish cart (Finland) *4. The well (Finland) *5. Fox the gooseherd (Estonia) *6. Fox and Crocodile (India) *7. Lucky or unlucky? (India) *8. Fox and Weasel (East Africa) *9. Fox and Hare (Nova Scotia) *10. The little cake (Caucasus) *11. In the wolf pit (Hungary) *12. Fox and Crow (Egypt) *13. Umbrella (Russia) *14. Buns and honey (Turkey) *15. Over the wall (Turkey) *16. The very little man (Germany)
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Category:1976 children's books Category:1976 short story collections Category:Children's short story collections Category:Collections of fairy tales Category:Literature featuring anthropomorphic foxes Category:Books about foxes Category:Methuen Publishing books Category:1976 anthologies
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