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Chapters 1-4

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Dahl, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox. 1970. Penguin Books, E-book.

• In Chapter 1, "The Three Farmers," the three farmers called Boggis, Bunce, and Bean are introduced to the reader.

• The three farmers are described as being mean, nasty, and rich.

• Local schoolchildren sing a particular rhyming song that makes fun of the three farmers.

• The song asserts that though the farmers look very different from one another, they are all extremely mean-spirited.

• Boggis is an "enormously fat" (1) chicken farmer with "thousands" (2) of chickens.

• Bunce raises ducks and geese, and Bean is a "turkey-and-apple farmer" (3).

• Bean is tall and thin, and is named as the cleverest of the three farmers.

• Bunce's favorite foods are doughnuts and goose liver paste and he is described by the narrator as a "pot-bellied dwarf" (3).

• In Chapter 2, "Mr. Fox," the narrator explains...

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