Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG - Description of animal killing which happened off page. Some animal peril.
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
When a farm gets new owners, the rabbits want to make sure the new owners don't turn around and sell the place to a developer, so Alice and her brother Thistle do the unimaginable - the rally the wild animals from the surrounding woods to help with a cooperative garden. They even make friends with the farmer's dog and an eagle.
Told in alternating perspectives - the rabbits and other animals, who can talk to each other, and 12yo Carl, the farmer's son who can't talk to the animals, but his baby sister understand them and she can talk - sort of. I loved the animals' perspectives about death, and the cooperative nature of the garden. The side characters were a bunch of fun - the guys from the Eagle Project, the farmer who lives next door, even the villain, oh and all the different animals! Wood has created characters as realistic as Beatrix Potter's. A thoroughly enjoyable read that would make a great bedtime story or read aloud.
Lisa Librarian
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