This book had a really neat concept, our world shown through the eyes of a fox that's learned to write and speak human and his experiences therein. It's not that difficult to see the message laid plainly before us, a whack upon the head is less subtle. Humans are nasty creatures and really we should all be nicer. And that's it. The book is too short to really delve beyond the bare surface of the idea that yeah, people abuse and displace wildlife constantly, but what else is there to do? It reads like a call to action from a fox that still has some hope left, but I felt like we haven't spent enough time with him to feel anything other than standard pity.

The whole book just felt like it was riding off the gimmick of the phonetic writing style, which is meant to be endearing, but doesn't really save it from its other shortcomings. I guess I just wanted more from this idea than a story that only took me a half hour to read.