General Musing

I first read Redwall by Brian Jacques when I was 15, I loved it. Remembering that I stood in the livingroom bawling my eyes out after one of the following books, can’t post the spoiler here, my father bought me the whole series. I’ve been reading them in a chain, only taking time out briefly to read a very small selection of other books. I’ll be posting reviews of the books here in a series of reviews.

As the first book in the series this book has a special place in my heart, over 17 years later I still loved and enjoyed it. The story, filled with talking animals living in an Abbey called Redwall, is a true fable, “… in prose [and] verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a “moral”), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.“^[1]. And although I have a slight aversion to anthropomorphism, Redwall is an exception to this.

This book introduced me to one of the legends of Redwall Abbey, Martin the Warrior, and laid the basis for many hours of fun.