In her introduction to this retelling Avery carefully recounts Reynard's history. While Aesop's fox who tricked a sick lion is one of his antecedents, his first appearance in literature was in a ...

Soon after he figured in the Old French satirical tales of “Le Roman de Renart,” becoming so popular that the word for “fox” in French changed from goupil to renard. Reynard popped up in ...

It was my determination to tell the fox’s story – to write an alternative narrative for Reynard’s successors – that inspired my children’s fantasy series, Foxcraft. The books follow fox ...

In 1481 William Caxton translated a Flemish version of the epic and printed it as the History of Reynard the Fox. Most of the 97 books Caxton published on his press in Westminster were works of ...

Soon after he figured in the Old French satirical tales of “Le Roman de Renart,” becoming so popular that the word for “fox” in French changed from goupil to renard. Reynard popped up in ...