New York Timesbestselling author Brian Jacques gives us another tales of Redwall, filled with “The Knights of the Round Table with paws” (The Sunday Times)along with their friends and enemies. A young otter raised by a vermin clan to be the Taggerung-the chosen beast who will lead them to victory-embarks on a journey to find his real home and family.
Praise for the Redwall series “Brian Jacques has the true fantasy writer’s ability to create a wholly new and believable world.” –
School Library Journal “The medieval world of Redwall Abbey—where gallant mouse warriors triumph over evil invaders—has truly become the stuff of legend.” –
Seattle Post-Intelligencer “A grand adventure story. Once the reader is hooked, there is no peace until the final page.” –
Chicago Sun-Times “Jacques’s effortless, fast-paced narrative gets its readers quickly hooked. He clearly loves this other world he has created—there’s a genius sense of involvement and care (lots of lovingly descriptive passages), as well as an overflowing, driving imagination.” –
Birmingham Post “Redwall is both an incredible and ingratiating place, one to which readers will doubtless cheerfully return.” –
New York Times Book Review “An excellent adventure with an enlightened conscience. Brilliantly complex. With vibrant and distinct animal characters, Jacques’s classically inspired plot-weaving achieves virtuosity.” –
Publishers Weekly “Only a churl would reject this morality play in fur.” –
Kirkus Reviews “Filled with the kind of vibrant storytelling that fans of Jacques have come to expect. His dialogue is livl3‚