Her parents' little family, as mice are apt to do, has multiplied rapidly and have totally outgrown Gray House.
When she gets home, she doesn't find any respite. It is not acceptable that any mouse who defied his orders should live. Her journey back to her family's home at Gray House is dangerous. While the reader might not be devastated (but surprised and a little shocked, yes), Poppy most certainly is. Ocax's need for power, and, as I told you before, Mr. He will do whatever he pleases without asking permission from anybody, including and especially Mr. Poppy, a deer mouse, and her boyfriend, Ragweed, are on top of it without permission from Mr. Poppy's story begins on a beautiful summer evening on Bannock Hill. If you read these to your kids, I'd recommend doing it the same way. By beginning with Poppy, we're seeing the series as it unfolded for Avi, and that's worth something. We know what the final outcome will be, but that only makes Ragweed's story more alluring. Our curiosity has been piqued about this strong-willed, independent little mouse. As it is, we've gotten to know Ragweed first through the eyes of Poppy and Ragweed's family. We didn't know Ragweed well enough to be traumatized.īut can you imagine what my boys' reaction would have been if we'd started with Ragweed's story, been on an adventure with him, and then he was gobbled up in the first chapter of Poppy? It would have been so devastating. We'd hardly become acquainted with Ragweed and so, although his death was sad, it didn't traumatize any of us. Ragweed starts out as a character in Poppy, but within the first chapter, he gets eaten by the evil owl, Mr. It many cases, reading them in the order of publication sheds some added insight into the stories that would be lost if you read them in the forced chronological order, and that's definitely the case with these books. If that means they fall out of order chronologically, then so be it. And, as with The Chronicles of Narnia, I'm a stickler for reading books in the order they were written in.
If you look them up, you will see that there's another book, Ragweed, that comes before this one chronologically, but we opted to start with Poppy for a number of reasons.įirst and foremost, even though Ragweed's story happens first, his story was not written first. These two books are part of the Dimwood Forest series. But yes, the Poppy referred to is the same Poppy. But in case you're confused, I'm talking about two separate books here. Writing a combined review of these books seemed like a great idea until I put their titles side by side.
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