Ta-mello De Fformelo Tussock, to give this young hare his full title, was doing battle with imaginary enemies. It is often said that a madness takes possession of certain hares in spring, and anybeast watching the performance of one such creature would have had his worst fears confirmed. All around, the land was wakening to springtime, and it promised to be a fair season. Clamoring and gaggling, a skein of barnacle geese in wavering formation winged their way overhead toward the coastline. Already a few hardy wood ants and honeybees were abroad in the copse fringes. Carrying half-melted icicles along, a tinkling, chuckling stream bounded from rocky cliff ledges, meandering around fir and pine groves toward broad open plains. Snowdrop, chickweed, and shepherd's purse nodded gratefully beneath a bright mid-morning sun, which beamed through small islands of breeze-chased clouds. They are written in a style that is reminiscent of Tolkien, with virtuous heroes, clumsy villains, poems and songs.BOOK ONE The Runaway Recruit Melting snowdrifts with grassy knolls poking through made a patchwork of the far east lands as winter surrendered its icy grip of the earth to oncoming spring. The Long Patrol: A Coming of Age for a Young Hare If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? They are all good, and this one was as well. This is about the 7th Brian Jacque's performance I have listened to. Have you listened to any of Brian Jacques’s other performances before? How does this one compare? It was later than Redwall in Redwall's timeline, but it had some aspects that went back to the Mossflower story, which was fun because it recalled that book for me. It had adventure, celebrations, and the bad guys were really bad but buffoonish.

It was a story of coming of age for the main character. It was one of the better books I have listened to recently.įor long-time Redwall fans, this story involved characters from all areas of Mossflower: Hares, otters, shrews, Badgers, and Redwallers. It has a cast reading the various speaking roles as well as being narrated by the author. The Long Patrol was a fun story to listen to.

Where does The Long Patrol rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? Another Fun Episode in the Redwall Series

The long patrol by brian jacques