Synopses & Reviews
National Book Award Longlist * New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year
From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come.
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild.
At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox.
Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own....
Review
"Searingly honest and heartbreakingly lovely, Pax is, quite simply, a masterpiece." Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award-winning author of The One and Only Ivan
Review
"A sweeping and enchanting wartime story of trust, loyalty, betrayal, and the love of a boy for the fox hes raised since he was a kit. A master storyteller, Pennypacker leads the reader along a path of shifting hopes to the storys heart-wrenching conclusion." Ann M. Martin, Newbery Honoree, author of Rain Reign
About the Author
When Sara Pennypacker was a kid, she thought her parents' job was to keep life dull. She is very much afraid her own children felt the same way about her. Now that she's grown up, she is the author of the acclaimed middle grade novel
Summer of the Gypsy Moths; the award-winning,
New York Times-bestselling Clementine chapter book series; and the picture books
Pierre in Love and
Sparrow Girl. She divides her time between Cape Cod and Florida.
Jon Klassen grew up in Niagara Falls, Canada, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator of I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat, as well as the illustrator of Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett; The Dark by Lemony Snicket; House Held Up by Trees by Ted Kooser; Cats' Night Out by Caroline Stutson; and the first three books in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series.