This book came out when I was a kid, although I never heard of it (and the rather large series that it's part of) until a few years ago. Onto my to-read list it went. I enjoyed it, though I did find it a bit drawn-out. Still, the focus on bravery and community is nice, and there are a lot of fun characters. Constance the badger is, I think, my favourite, and I did enjoy the ongoing treasure hunt for the sword, especially when it was clue-solving rather than snake-fighting.

In some ways it's a little odd reading children's books as an adult - not because there's anything wrong with that, but because I'm always wondering how I would have reacted to said books if I'd read them as a kid, in comparison with how I'd react to them today. With something like Redwall, I think I would have read it and liked it - but not loved it - which is much the same as now, but I also remember the books my sister used to read and this would have been right up her alley when she was a kid. Not so much now, maybe, but she adored animal series books then. There was a series, what was it? Farthing Wood. I remember she had a few of those. Must look them up again sometime as well...