![]() There I was, close enough to touch one, with a bad leg as well - and here I still am today. 'I have come to believe that foxes could not possibly be as clever as we think them. ![]() "Crane-man picked up the last morsel of rice with his chopsticks and popped it into his mouth. "'Enough!' Tree-Ear's eyes were wide with horror. It stopped there, right in the middle of the path, grinning with all its teeth shining white, licking its lips, its eyes glowing, its broad tail swishing back and forth slowly, back and forth-' "'So it was dusk, and I was still a good distance away. "Even to say the word made a trickle of fear run down Tree-Ear's spine. Reception A Single Shard is the Newbery Award-winning novel by Linda Sue Park. It also received an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature. ![]() It won the 2002 Newbery Medal, awarded for excellence in children's literature. It was said that a fox could lure a man to his doom, tricking him into coming to its den, where somehow he would be fed to its offspring. A Single Shard is a novel by Linda Sue Park, set in 12th-century Korea. some people even believed that foxes possessed evil magic. They were not large or fierce, like the bears and tigers that roamed the mountains, but they were known to be fiendishly clever. ![]()
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