After the passing of her great-grandmother, a young Indian girl recalls the times they spent together -- peeling birch barks for baskets and hunting fox tracks in the snow -- in a moving celebration of the love between the young and the old and the beauty of the natural world.

"Bruchac sees no need to cheat accuracy to reach the spiritual world of his Abenaki Indian heritage in Fox Song". -- The New York Times Book Review

"An important counterbalance to the many books which show Native Americans as relics of history". -- Horn Book

"Story and art together make a rich combination that will move adults reading this aloud as much as it does the children who hear it". -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books