Read-alikes and related books

Books like Fox

If you loved Fox by Margaret Wild, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Foxes, Birds, Dogs, and Friendship.

Foxes Birds Dogs Friendship Social Themes Animals Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Fox

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

The Antlered Ship

Dashka Slater

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Friendship

One Snowy Night

Nick Butterworth

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Friendship

Grimwood

Nadia Shireen

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Friendship

Little Bird

Cynthia Voigt

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Friendship

Pandora

Victoria Turnbull

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Friendship

The First Dog

Jan Brett

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Dogs

Gooseberry Park

Cynthia Rylant

Themes: Foxes • Dogs • Friendship

Chicken, Chips and Peas

Allan Ahlberg

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Dogs

Pax, Journey Home

Sara Pennypacker

Themes: Foxes • Dogs • Friendship

#10

Dogzilla Starring Flash, Rabies, Dwayne, and Introducing Leia as the Monster

Dav Pilkey

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Dogs

#11

Pig the Star

Aaron Blabey

Themes: Foxes • Dogs • Friendship

#12

The Sneaky Snow Fox

Patricia Reilly Giff

Themes: Foxes • Dogs • Friendship

#13

Detective Mole

Camilla Pintonato

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Dogs

#14

Are You a Cat?

Coll Muir

Themes: Birds • Dogs • Friendship

#15

Sglod and the Sand Dragon

Ruth Morgan

Themes: Birds • Dogs • Friendship

#16

Pansy in Africa The Mystery of the Missing Lion Cub

Cynthia Bardes

Themes: Birds • Dogs • Friendship

#17

No Roses for Harry!

Gene Zion

Themes: Birds • Dogs • Friendship

#18

Hungry Hen

Richard M. N. Waring

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Social Themes

#19

Friends Board Book True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships

Catherine Thimmesh

Themes: Foxes • Dogs • Friendship

#20

The Rough Patch

Brian Lies

Themes: Foxes • Dogs • Social Themes

#21

Scary Stories for Young Foxes

Christian McKay Heidicker

Themes: Foxes • Friendship • Social Themes

#22

The Smiley Snowman

M. Christina Butler

Themes: Foxes • Friendship • Social Themes

#23

Chicken Licken

Mara Alperin

Themes: Foxes • Birds • Animals

#24

Fox’s Hiccups (a Percy the Park Keeper Story)

Nick Butterworth

Themes: Foxes • Friendship • Social Themes

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Fox by Margaret Wild. Connected by Foxes, Birds, Dogs. Authors featured include Dashka Slater, Nick Butterworth, Nadia Shireen, Cynthia Voigt, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.