A review by jwells
Redwall by Brian Jacques

adventurous

This would be a great starter  book to get a kid into epic fantasy.  Maybe an older middle grade to young YA aged reader, though. I'm a bit disturbed by all the reviewers tagging this book "lighthearted" and calling it "cute." There are quite a few gruesome deaths. Not graphically described on the page, but a sensitive child might find that sort of thing upsetting.  I would have, as a young reader who was used to nice stories about girls with ponies, or Nancy Drew solving mysteries. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Animal death, and Death

When the characters are anthropomorphic animals, do I tag for animal death, or just for death? Anyway, no humans in this book, but a high body count and some violent deaths. Genre typical for high fantasy; I'm only warning because it's a children's book and so many other reviews call it cute/light.