A Redwall Winter's Tale

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A Redwall Winter's Tale

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First US edition cover
Author Brian Jacques
Illustrator Christopher Denise
Cover artist Christopher Denise
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Redwall
Genre Fantasy novel
Publisher Hutchinson (UK) & Philomel (US)
Publication date
2001
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 64 (UK Hardback) & 72 (US Hardback)
ISBN 0-09-176948-5 (UK Hardback) & ISBN   0-399-23346-6 (US Hardback)
OCLC 59483065
Preceded by The Great Redwall Feast

A Redwall Winter's Tale was written by Brian Jacques and illustrated by the well-known Redwall artist, Christopher Denise.

Brian Jacques British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

James Brian Jacques was an English writer, best known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.

Redwall is a series of children's fantasy novels by Brian Jacques. It is also the title of the first book of the series, published in 1986, as well as the name of the Abbey featured in the book and the name of an animated TV series based on three of the novels, which first aired in 1999. The books are primarily aimed at older children. There have been twenty-two novels and two picture books published. The twenty-second, and final, novel, The Rogue Crew, was posthumously released on May 3, 2011.

Christopher Denise is an American artist of two of Brian Jacques' Redwall picture books. He illustrated the picture books The Great Redwall Feast and A Redwall Winter's Tale. He also illustrated The Redwall Cookbook.

Contents

Plot introduction

A Redwall Winter's Tale is the second Redwall picture book. It features the molebabe Bungo and the inhabitants of Redwall trying to decipher more clever riddles.

Plot summary

A Redwall Winter's Tale opens up on the last day of autumn. At Redwall Abbey, the two Dibbuns (toddlers) Bungo and Tubspike are playing outside, waiting for a group of travelling performers that are expected at the Abbey. The Abbot had given them permission to welcome them.

The performers arrive, enter the abbey, and put on a show. Finally, when it is time for bed, the Dibbuns are told the story of the Snow Badger, a mythical creature who makes the snow fall.

Just before dawn the next morning, the Dibbun mole Bungo sees the Snow Badger and is able to talk to him! When the little mole wakes up, he finds a pouch around his neck. It contains a small crystal drop, and a note is written on the inside of the pouch on a scrap of parchment. It is in the form of a riddle, but what does it mean? The Redwallers must try to figure it out...

Translations

Preceded by
The Taggerung
Redwall Series
(publication order)
Succeeded by
Triss

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