Ocax is not as strong as he wants the mice to think he is. Despite what she’s been led to believe for years, Mr. To make matters worse, when Poppy attempts to move with her family to a different part of the woods where the food supply is richer, Mr. Ocax’s evil ways…how could she have been so foolish to put herself and Ragweed at risk? Ocax, who rules over Dimwood forest, she’s devastated.
So when Ragweed is scooped up by the sinister owl, Mr. Poppy knew she was taking a risk following her beloved Ragweed to Bannock Hill, but a night of dancing with the handsome golden mouse was just too tempting. The underlying messages, to challenge unjust authority and to rely on logic and belief in oneself, are palatably blended with action and suspense.” - School Library Journal The story is accompanied by inviting illustrations from Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca. In the second book in the Tales of Dimwood Forest by Newbery Medal-winning author Avi, a tiny deer mouse named Poppy dares to stand up to a tyrannical owl. Suitable Junior primary school.Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner * ALA Notable Book * ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice * School Library Journal Best Book This is not the best book in the series but it is a satisfying ending. Easy to read-a-loud and adventure enough to keep children interested.īrian Floca’s illustrations are again a feature especially of Bounder the Fox. Will all the animals survive and how will Avi end it all? Well in my opinion Avi does it well with Bilbo’s fate in Lord of the Rings springing to mind.Īvi has written a very accessible story for children, short chapters, paragraphs and sentences. This homespun philosophy is what gives Avi’s stories their teeth.Įreth, the porupine and self acclaimed best friend of Poppy, is his irascible self, who wonders why he is lonely and decides he needs a change of image.įate takes a hand in the story and Ragweed’s earring is the cause of it all. In this novel the aging Poppy suffers a shock loss and starts to contemplate the rest of her life and decides to take the advice of her first love Ragweed, now deceased who said “a mouse has to do what a mouse has to do”.
Poppy was the start of the series written in 1995 and I still regard it as one of the best read-a-loud stories for Junior Primary school students along with Ereth’s Birthday.
HarperCollins, 2009Īvi is one of my favourite children’s writers so to find the sixth and final book about the mice and other animals that inhabit Dimwood Forest was a treat.
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