Summer Story

It was such a hot summer. The sky was deep blue and the sun never faltered.
All along Brambly Hedge the mice did their best to keep cool.
Poppy Eyebright sought refuge in the mossy shadows of the mill wheel; Dusty Dogwood took to walking by the banks of the cooling stream. Dusty and Poppy spent more and more time together, so no one was at all surprised when they announced their engagement.
They decided on a very unusual setting for the wedding ceremony, but even they didn’t realise just how unusual it would prove to be!
Jill Barklem spent five years on research before she started to write her first stories about the mice of Brambly Hedge.
Her interest in natural history and her curiosity about traditional rural customs and crafts have spilled over into these chronicles of hedgerow life.
The mice of Brambly Hedge live on the other side of the stream across the field. If you look very hard amongst the tangled roots and stems, you may 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.
The mice keep themselves very busy. Whether it’s spring, summer, autumn or winter, there is always something to prepare for and, of course, the mice never miss an opportunity for a celebration.
Ages 4+