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    XO, OX: A Love Story
    XO, OX: A Love Story
    XO, OX: A Love Story
    Ebook38 pages9 minutes

    XO, OX: A Love Story

    By Adam Rex and Campbell Scott

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    Dear Gazelle,

    For some time now I have wanted to write a letter to say how much I admire you. You are so graceful and fine. Even when you are running from tigers you are like a ballerina who is running away from tigers.

    I think that what I'm trying to say is that I love you.

    XO,
    OX

    And so begins an epic, if initially unrequited, love affair between a graceful gazelle and a clumsy, hapless ox. Romance will never be the same.

    Adam Rex's hilarious, sweet, and at times heartbreaking letters between a hopelessly romantic ox and a conceited, beautiful gazelle are paired perfectly with Scott Campbell's joyful illustrations to bring you a romance for the ages.

    A Neal Porter Book

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJan 3, 2017
    ISBN9781250148339
    XO, OX: A Love Story
    Author

    Adam Rex

    ADAM REX is the author and illustrator of PSSST!, TREE RING CIRCUS, FRANKENSTEIN TAKES THE CAKE, and The New York Times bestseller FRANKENSTEIN MAKES A SANDWICH. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. www.adamrex.com

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    • 4/5
      Ox slowly wins Gazelle over in this epistolary picture-book, as he writes letter after letter expressing his admiration, not put off by the fact that her initial responses are form letters. Through a combination of flattery and sly provocation, his missives prompt her to get more personally involved in their correspondence, and although her replies are not favorable at first, are in fact insulting, it is clear by the end that she has come to care for this stout, ungraceful (and smelly!) creature...An amusing book from start to finish - the letters from author and illustrator on the rear dust-jacket flap were a particularly nice touch! - XO, OX: A Love Story highlights the idea that friendship and even love can develop between two very different creatures. I enjoyed the fact that it is Ox, whom Gazelle describes as having a "clumsy brain," who demonstrates a cunning understanding of his target's vanity, using both flattery and carefully disguised insult to provoke a response. The artwork, done in watercolor and colored pencil, is every bit as entertaining as the text, capturing the humor of the tale perfectly. The decorative end-papers featuring Oz and Gazelle in various poses, is also appealing. Recommended to anyone looking for humorous new stories for the picture-book set.
    • 5/5
      Oh, this is so good!!! Humor, kindness, and more. Count on school age children to find the 'story' in these letters ...
    • 5/5
      Dear Littens, thank you for finding and sharing this book with me. It was lovely. And it could have gone on much longer. I really want to see Gazelle fall in love with Ox. For now I will have to live with falling in love with this book.+16#LitsyAtoZ#BBRC
    • 3/5
      Probably super cute for one-on-one, but very hard to read in storytime. I don't think the kiddos got it.

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