The Gift of Dark Hollow
Author: Kieran Larwood
Illustrator: David Wyatt
Series: Podkin One-Ear ll (trilogy)
Original language: English
Published: April 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN13: 9780571328420
Price: € 10.50 (paperback)
Age: 9 - 12 years
We start in part II of Podkin One-Ear,: The Gift of Dark Hollow. An exciting fantasy trilogy by Kieran Larwood, for children aged 9 and up. Part I begins with an old bard ploughing alone through the snow, looking for a burrow where he can tell his stories. The bard is a rabbit and the burrow is a rabbit village.
In the deserted snowy landscape, the bard finds two doors that lead to an underground community of rabbits. Part I ends movingly, with the old bard and his brother, who are think back together, to a long time ago. To that one evening when everything changed forever...
When we look through our new book and see the cool illustrations by David Wyatt, we can hardly wait to know how the story continues. What the hero of the story, Podkin One-Ear, experiences, how the old bard tells his beautiful stories to his student Rue and how all the other rabbits are doing. It looks like things are getting very exciting again, but we let you know later!
3+ brilliant shining stars for Podkin One-Ear - The Gift of Dark Hollow, from our young listeners and their readers!