Redwall: Redwall, Book 1
4.7 | 5,811 ratings
Price: 19.69
Last update: 11-30-2025
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- Kelli SmithA good read!Redwall is full of adventure, courage, and true camaraderie! it reminds me so much of Robin Hood. What a fun book to read! I loved the rich descriptions of the food and the world of the Redwall abbey, it helped paint a picture of warmth and of a home full of loved ones worth fighting for. This is great adventure in two parts. One of Matthias on an adventure to find the sword of the great warrior mouse Martin. The other is of the many efforts of the abbey creatures protecting their loved ones and home from the books villain, Cluny and his horde. At the end the two parts come together in an unforgettable battle! I loved the villain Cluny the Scourge, he yelled and threatened and said some of the craziest things. He was also completely relentless. What an unforgettable character. Brother Methusala was also a favorite. He was a wise old mouse with a sharp mind and tongue. He reminded me of my Grandfather. I loved any scene he was in. Wonderful book to read and full of imagination.
- ShopperClassicGreat children’s book. My children now want to read the entire series!!
- Jasmine vanzandtGreatThe book came nicely and I'm really enjoying it
- Keith ChambersCozy(ish)This took me longer than I expected to read, but it was pretty decent. I was expecting this to be cozy fantasy fair, I didn't know named characters would be dispatched so suddenly and violently. I'm not complaining, just commenting on the action.
- ZiggyThis is FUN!I was a bit skeptical when I picked up this book, but I was tasked with finding some great fantasy reads for my grandson. I could not have been more pleasantly surprised.
At first. I thought this was just a kids book, and decided to give it to Connor with hopes he would enjoy a simple story with childish characters. Wrong! The story morphed into a thrilling adventure based on a young mouse on a quest to save his adopted friends. The characters are truly engaging, the bad guys are really bad, and the story's direction takes all kinds of interesting twists and turns. I am looking forward to buying the next one to read a whole new premise with many new characters. - VivianRedwall by Brian JacquesRedwall is the first volume in a series of 15 books that Brian Jacques wrote for a group of orphaned blind children in Liverpool, England that was fortuitously published. It is stated to be for a youthful audience, but it is my experience that it holds charm for all ages. It is beautifully written, well constructed and the tale delightfully resolves so that the reader comes away pleased and reassured that the time was well spent reading the book.
The world of Redwall is good and caring, the way we would want the world to be if we could have an environment where those around us cared for the well-being of each other and those who were evil were well defined and doomed for defeat. The characters in Redwall are forest creatures from a mythical and medieval time. The scenes are set in an abbey and a forest. From there we are invited to follow the machinations of those who live in Redwall Abbey and those who try to destroy the tranquil life of those who inhabit the abbey.
I used the book with advanced non-native speakers for the charm of the book, the fast-paced plot and the delight of both the the characters and the well-written language. I question whether this series will go down as classical literature, but as Dickens has made his mark on English literature, I suspect that Jacques may well find his place in English literature also. There is also a video series on YouTube that makes it easier for students to follow the flow of the story should they wish to use it. t
Children find the story engaging; my students were equally delighted with the novel and I was pleased to find something that kept the interest of my students as well as building their vocabulary base. - MatthewMasterful piece of children's and young adult literatureIn a time long ago, in a magical land far away, there were beautiful books written for children, because the publishing industry hadn't yet turned into a dark ocean of money grubbing sloughlore that patronized the intelligence of children for profit, and hadn't yet begun to punish writers who didn't appeal to the lowest common denominator. Today, one can now graduate from high school with a 3-4.0 GPA and barely be able to write one's own name. Today books for youngsters just tell the story with no nuance, scrubbed clean of any attempt to create eviscerating imagery, no imagination, and tell you what to think about it, too. Once, books like this were written. Masterful, eloquent, and gave readers something they could rise up to. But readers trash these older YA books that established the genre because they have been brought to expect authors to come down to them, and any challenge or abstraction of language is written off today as bad writing, as if the reader now knows better than the writer. That's why people give this book lower reviews today than back then. They can't see past their own Dunning Kruger effect because they can't really read well enough anymore to be able to. But if one wants to buck norms and write something truly great for a worthy audience, this is one of those series you study with all you have. Writers, take note.
- Helen & John BernabeAdvancedThis book is more of a “classical book”
I would say words are for advanced readers and even advanced readers might want to have a dictionary next to them to look up certain words. I would say this book would be for fourth graders. My boy just graduated 2nd grade…and moving on to third grade. We do a lot of classical reading, and I take time to read it with them and highlight all the words we didn’t recognize per chapter and go over them after each chapter to get a better understanding of what’s going on in the chapter. It’s a fun read! There is a series on YouTube on Red Wall as well.