Fantastic Mr Fox At the table, Mr. Fox invites everyone to live in a secret underground neighbourhood with him and his family, where he will hunt for them daily and where none of them will need to worry about the farmers any more. Everyone joyfully cheers for this idea, while Boggis, Bunce, and Bean are left waiting for the fox to emerge from his hole. The author concludes "And so far as I know, they are still waiting." In 1994, "Fantastic Mr Fox" was awarded the Read Aloud BILBY Award. The book was adapted into a film by director Wes Anderson. It was
John Thackray Bunce John Thackray Bunce John Thackray Bunce (1828–1899) was an English journalist and author, and was editor of "Aris's Birmingham Gazette" from 1860 to 1862 and of the "Birmingham Post" from 1862 to 1898. Bunce was born on 11 April 1828, in Faringdon, Berkshire, to John Bunce, watchmaker and silversmith, and his wife, Mary, née Clapham. Mary's mother's maiden name had been Thackray. The family moved to Birmingham when Bunce was nine and he attended Gem Street elementary branch school, operated by the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI. Aged 14, Bunce left school and began work as a