About This Book
Reach for this book when your child is ready for a grand, cinematic adventure that explores the true meaning of leadership and the weight of legacy. If you have a reader who is outgrowing simple fables and looking for stories where the stakes feel real and the bravery feels earned, this prequel to the Redwall series is a perfect fit. The story follows Lord Brocktree, a noble badger, as he journeys to reclaim the ancestral mountain stronghold of Salamandastron from a terrifying wildcat conqueror. Along the way, he builds an unlikely coalition of forest creatures, demonstrating how diverse personalities and skills can unite for a common cause. While it is a world of talking animals, the emotional core deals with very human themes: the burden of responsibility, the grief of losing elders, and the resilience required to stand up against bullies and tyrants. It is a dense, vocabulary-rich epic that rewards patient readers with a deeply satisfying victory of good over evil.
