Fantastic Mr Fox as Mrs. Fox, Henry Grant Kerswell, Peter Kent and John Lofthouse as Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Fantastic Mr Fox Fantastic Mr Fox is a children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl. It was published in 1970, by George Allen & Unwin in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S., with illustrations by Donald Chaffin. The first U.K. Puffin paperback, first issued in 1974, featured illustrations by Jill Bennett. Later editions have featured illustrations by Tony Ross (1988) and Quentin Blake (1996). The story is about Mr. Fox and how he outwits his farmer neighbours to steal
Joseph H. Bunce Joseph H. Bunce Joseph Henry Bunce (15 December 1823 - 27 February 1908) was the eighteenth Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1869 to 1870. Joseph Henry Bunce was born on 15 December 1823 in New York. He was a steamboat captain until the mid-1860s, when he founded a wholesale grocery firm. Typical of Louisville steamboat captains, he lived with his family in the Portland district. A Democrat, he ran against future mayor John G. Baxter and police chief Robert Gilchriest in 1869. Despite not being endorsed by the democratic party or "The Courier-Journal", Bunce won by 300 votes over Baxter.