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 died in infancy, another as a young woman. Their home, Longworth, at 24 Priory Road, Edgbaston, was designed for Bunce by John Henry Chamberlain. It is now part of the Priory Hospital and grade II listed. A collection of manuscripts acquired by Bunce, as well as some of his own correspondence, is now in the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham. 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