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A Redwall Winter's Tale

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I got this book during the christmas season thinking it would be a regular chapter book. This is not a Chapter Book!!!! This only has a few words per page but the illustrations make up for everything. Don't get me wrong though, the story is written very well, very poetically in fact. This is great read, especially for younger people who may have a hard time reading some of Jacques other longer books. Definitely worth it!

A traveling group of entertainers arrives at the Redwall Abbey on the last day of Autumn. The travellers put on a big show, and the Redwallers provide a huge feast. When it is time to put the Dibbuns (youngsters) to bed, Mighty Bulbrock Badger tells a bedtime story. Who brings the wintertime snows? Why, the Snow Badger, of course! But is the Snow Badger real, or just a fairy tale told to the Dibbuns? You'll have to read the book to find out. The pictures are wonderful, perfectly complementing the story. Like Brian Jacques' previous picture book The Great Redwall Feast, also illustrated by Christopher Denise, this is a perfect introduction to the Redwall series for younger readers and a great book for all ages.

Brian Jacques is perhaps England's second-best-known young adult writer after J. K. Rowling. His thirteen Redwall novels have a large and loyal following. While the novels are for readers nine-and-up, this volume begs to be shared by the entire family. The rich illustrations bring to mind classics like "Peter Rabbit" and "Wind in the Willows."On Autumn's Final Day, the animals of Redwall Abbey gather together to celebrate the coming of winter. There is great excitement in the community because on this special night they will feast and be entertained by the famous "Traveling Thistledown Troup." This is a tale of community, friendship, and belief that will no doubt become a family holiday tradition.

This short tale is illustrated by Christopher Denise, who also illustrated The Great Redwall Feast. Denise does a wonderful job of capturing the characters and mood of the Redwall world. In this tale, traveling players visit the abbey and perform at a feast marking the last day of autumn. The dibbuns hear a bedtime tale of the Snow Badger, the lord of winter. Later the Snow Badger visits the abbey grounds with his army of snow hares to bring the first winter's snow. This book should be enjoyable to fans of the series and the TV show.

In this second collaboration, Brian Jacques and Christopher Denise continue to give us another short story that happens between the Redwall and the Mattimeo novel.

Once again, Brian Jacques writes another great story where he combines both prose and rhymes to tell us how the last day of autumn and the first day of winter occurred at the abbey of Redwall. This involves both a great troop of circus entertainers and a mysterious spirit that comes every winter in the Mossflower land. As in his Great Redwall feast, Jacques offers us another riddle, just as brilliantly done and as entertaining to solve.

As for Christopher Denise, his soft pastels illustrations are more gorgeous than ever, and his characters designs just connect well with the Redwall universe. So much that one wish that he continued to work in the rest of the Redwall series, or even interpret certain scenes of the series in a huge compilation of soft pastels illustrations of Brian Jacques' stories.

To conclude, it is another great piece that enriches the Redwall universe and the culture of its characters.

This was a very good Redwall "additional." The story was good and the rhyming was well done, all in the great "Redwall" fashion. The illustrations were excellent, and the Dibbuns were cute. I loved the entire book, and would definitely buy it.

I got this one for one of granddaughters who loves Redwall books. I was a little nervous because I wasn't sure if she had read this one or not. She hadn't read it and she plans on reading it aloud to her little sisters. The pictures were wonderful and really brought the characters of the book to life.

My children adore this very thoroughly illustrated Redwall tale! It gives faces to all of the creatures they have grown to love from reading the Redwall series.

This short tale is illustrated by Christopher Denise, who also illustrated The Great Redwall Feast. Denise does a wonderful job of capturing the characters and mood of the Redwall
world. In this tale, traveling players visit the abbey and perform at a feast marking the last day of autumn. The dibbuns hear a bedtime tale of the Snow Badger, the lord of winter. Later the Snow Badger visits the abbey grounds with his army of snow hares to bring the first winter's snow. This is a "winter's tale," the kind of tale that might be told around a fireplace on a cold winter's night, and it includes an example of a winter's tale, the tale of the Snow Badger. A winter's tale typically involves some supernatural elements (See Shakespeare's Winter's Tale for another variation on this genre or Isak Dinesen's 7 Gothic Tales.)

Illustrator Christopher Denise does a superb job of bringing a visual feast of animal characters to life in Brian Jacques' "A Redwall Winter's Tale." Amazingly talented artist.