Roger just had to see the fox. If he could be quick enough and quiet enough, he could. Seth the hired man had seen him, and Seth had said that it wouldn't be easy for a city boy to be that quiet and quick.

Roger didn't want to be called a city boy. He wanted to be really at home in the Connecticut hills and the still, new snow that lay over them. And he wanted to take part in all the thrilling, mid-winter happenings of the country. So he just had to see the fox.

His dog Scamper didn't help. The duck-hunters didn't, either. But his seventh birthday did, because he got his first pair of skiis — and those skiis gave Roger a wonderful idea about the fox!

This is the first picture-book collaboration by Miss Woodward, a well known artist, and Lavinia Davis, whose popular books for children have all been for older ages. They both live in the Connecticut countryside that they have made real and exciting with Roger's adventures.

This is a Junior Literary Guild selection, chosen as an outstanding book for boys and girls (P Group).

From the dust jacket