Title: One Fine Day
Author: Nonny Hogrogian
Illustrator: Nonny Hogrogian
Publisher: Aladdin
Year: 1971, 1974
ISBN: 978-0020436201
Genre: Fiction, folklore
Topics: fox, manners, folklore, Armenia, greed, selfishness
Age Group: 2-6
Awards: Caldecott Medal (1972), A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (1972)
Dewey Category: 398.209566204529775
Format:Picture Book
In Nonny Hogrogian’s second Caldecott Medal winning classic, she retells an Armenian folktale about a greedy fox who makes a severe mistake that costs him his tail. The momentum of the story is driven by a chain of favors that fox must carry out to animals, people, and the earth in order to earn his tail back. The repetition of the words match the warm-hued illustrations perfectly, and will engage young readers as they follow the orange fox through lush, green meadows. Hogrogian successfully depicts a world where selfishness is snuffed by a series of events that shows us that all things are connected.
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