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Ease your whiskers, rest your paws, Pies and puddings fill the stores. Sweetly dream the night away, Till sunshine brings another day. Her mother tucks Primrose softly into her comfy bed. Good night.

Brambly Hedge is on the other side of the stream, across the field. If you can find it, and if you look very hard amongst the tangled roots and stems, you may even see a wisp of smoke from a small chimney, or through an open door, a steep flight of stairs deep within the trunk of a tree. For this is the home of the mice of Brambly Hedge. In 1980 Collins published four little picture books by a young author and illustrator, Jill Barklem. SPRING STORY, SUMMER STORY, AUTUMN STORY and WINTER STORY chronicle in astonishing illustrative detail the lives and adventures of a community of mice who live in Brambly Hedge. Brambly Hedge is an idyllic spot where old values flourish and seasonal self-sufficiency is the order of the day. Intended for...