Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night

The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night is part of a series of captivating picturebooks, each based on a beloved songtale from the great American folk musictradition and collected by John M. Feierabend.The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night is one of the most enduring of children'sfolk songtales, with roots dating back to England some 500 years ago andrecorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary, Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, TheSmothers Brothers, and many more.Beautiful illustrations by Taylor Herrington evoke a wily fox as he roamsa sleepy New England town in search of a meal for his family, with tones andtextures that are so vivid you can almost hear the rustle of leaves and see theshimmer of moonlight over the meadows.Like the other picture books in John M. Feierabend's First Steps in Musicseries, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night includes a description of the historyof the song, the notation of the song, and a link to a free mp3 download of thesong, sung by Jill Trinka.