![]() ![]() ![]() I am still stunned by what happened on page 6. It’s a lovely story, but I have to admit, my heart is still broken. She breaks rules, she escapes Ocax, she crosses a river on her own, makes an unlikely friend, and fights a desperate battle to prove that her family can move to the forbidden farm on the other side of the forest. ![]() At least in her little corner of it.Ĭharacters familiar to readers of Ragweed (the prequel to this book) make their appearances, but essentially this is Poppy’s story, and the deep sorrow that comes into her life, and what she risks to save her family that is caught between starvation and the deadly talons of Mr. ![]() A determined and brave little sweetheart faces the cold, brutal nature of the world, and does something to make it a better world. Nevertheless, this first book in the Tales from Dimwood Forest is an exciting, moving, and winsome adventure of a small creature - in this case, a female deer mouse who lives on the edge of Dimwood Forest - going up against a mighty predator, in this case an owl. Other than to say, I would have saved myself a lot of pain by reading this book first, instead of Ragweed. I’d tell you why, but I just don’t want to talk about it. ![]()
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