Without the following people, Pax would still be a roomful of crumpled pages: My kids, who, although grown, continue to remind me of the extraordinary bonds possible between children and animals. My writing groups, north and south—smart, insightful writers who don’t tolerate lazy sentences. My agent, Steven Malk, who understood and loved this book from the day I shared its tiny seed. My editor, Donna Bray, for her brilliant guidance. All of HarperCollins for the incredible support. Patient David, for all the times I was with the foxes.
And finally, Chris Crutcher—thank you for the story behind the story within the story. You know the one.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR
SARA PENNYPACKER is the author of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Clementine series, the acclaimed novel Summer of the Gypsy Moths, and the picture books Meet the Dullards, Pierre in Love, and Sparrow Girl. She divides her time between Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Florida. You can visit her online at www.sarapennypacker.com.
JON KLASSEN grew up in Niagara Falls, Canada, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of several books, including I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat, for which he won the Caldecott Medal. Two of his picture books have been named Caldecott Honor books: Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn (winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award), both by Mac Barnett. You can visit him online at www.burstofbeaden.com.
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BOOKS BY SARA PENNYPACKER
Middle grade books
Summer of the Gypsy Moths
The Clementine series
The Amazing World of Stuart: Stuart’s Cape
& Stuart Goes to School
Dumbstruck
Picture books
Meet the Dullards
Sparrow Girl
Pierre in Love
CREDITS
Cover art © 2016 by Jon Klassen
Cover design by Dana Fritts
COPYRIGHT
Balzer + Bray is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
PAX. Text copyright © 2016 by Sara Pennypacker. Illustrations copyright © 2016 by Jon Klassen. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pennypacker, Sara, date
Pax / Sara Pennypacker ; [illustrated by Jon Klassen]. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: “After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back”— Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-06-237701-2 (hardback)
EPub Edition © January 2016 ISBN 9780062377036
[1. Foxes as pets—Fiction. 2. Human-animal relationships—Fiction.] I. Klassen, Jon, illustrator. II. Title.
PZ7.P3856Pax 2016 2015015400
[Fic]—dc23 CIP
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16 17 18 19 20 PC/RRDH 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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