What Does The Fox Say? by Ylvis, Svein Nyhus - First Edition Children's Book, The Fox YouTube Video, Norway, Ylvisaker Brothers

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First U.S. edition of What Does The Fox Say? The children's picture book spin-off of The Fox, the Norwegian YouTube video sensation that went viral and has been viewed nearly a billion times.

Lyrics by Ylvis - Bard and Vegard Ylvisaker and Christian Lochestoer. Illustrated by Svein Nyhus. Dec 2013, first U.S. edition. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Five years ago, the Norwegian Ylvisaker brothers, a.k.a. Ylvis, produced a silly YouTube video, The Fox, to promote their show, Tonight With Ylvis.

What does the fox say?

"Dog goes WOOF.
Cat goes MEOW
Bird goes TWEET
and mouse goes SQUEAK.
Cow goes MOO.
Frog goes CROAK
and the elephant goes TOOT...
What does the fox say?
Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!..."

The brothers could never have imagined that their silly little promotional video would get nearly 750 million views. A similarly viral amount of attention and publicity followed, including a children's book, What Does The Fox Say?

The lyrics form the book's text but the value is in the gray, rusty-red, and black abstract, refrigerator art-style pictures by Svein Nyhus, a nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for lifetime achievement in children's literature.

Discover more about Sven Nyhus at Goodreads.
Goodreads.com/author/show/3118876.Svein_Nyhus

Condition*: Fine/Fine.



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