Cute child book with a lot of cute pictures/drawings highlighting the story and a nice short story inside. Perfect to read for your kid or with your kid :)

Brian Jacques once again produces a sweet, nostalgic tale.

There is a channel on YouTube that reads this aloud as a sleep aid. Highly reccomend!

5 stars. What a darling little book! It’s a delightful painting of the n  Redwalln world, with such lovely illustrations and beautiful poetry. The little story was super cute and I loved seeing everyone from n  Redwalln/ n  Mattimeon! A great addition to the canon. <3

Note: in this story it's the Great White Badger and his hares who send the snow. I don’t personally have a problem with it because obviously these are animals and theology doesn’t apply to them. ;P

This was good. I wasn't sure if it was rhyming or simply being a work of prose, but I enjoyed it whichever which way.

This children's book follows the excellent The Great Redwall Feast, but it fails to meet the standard set by the earlier work. It has much of the same bucolic charm, portrays the same joy of life in Redwall Abbey, and introduces a memorable winter spirit in the Snow Badger. Where it fails is the frequent shifting between prose and verse, with no discernible pattern. The Great Redwall Feast was composed of rhyming verse from start to finish and was a poetic achievement; this feels almost like Brian Jacques wrote placeholder text that was never converted to full verse.

Still, if you or your family enjoyed the first book, there is much wonder to share with the abbey residents here again. The illustrations are grand, and the magic of snowfall as experienced by the young (in fact or at heart) is captured beautifully. As a parent, I sometimes take issue with little molebabe Bungo's constant unchecked naughty behavior, and I have to wonder what sort of adult he might grow up to be without any limit setting, but this thinking is not in keeping with the spirit of Redwall so I will "lead with love" and let it pass.

I read this book when I was young, and a few months ago I found it again at a used bookstore. Immediately I bought it, remembering the fondness I'd had for it, and all of the Redwall books. As I read it, enjoying the beautiful illustrations and the comforting prose, it as as though I had been transformed into a child again - nothing but wonder and excitement ahead. In the end I gave the book to my friend's child, a little girl who enjoyed reading just as much as I did when I was her age. I think all children should read or listen to Brian Jacques' stories. He was a wonderful writer and he is sorely missed.

read this years ago, wonderful illustrations!

A good, cosy story for a cold night.

Read aloud to Kenneth

I love Brian Jacques, so I automatically enjoy anything that has to do with Redwall.
The cover art is beautiful, simple and atmospheric. I still remember how it caught my eye amongst many many other beautifully illustrated covers in the bookshop. One doesn’t have to read the Redwall series to understand the “Winter’s tale”, but knowing the background story certainly adds something special to the experience. The most amazing part of the book for me was the artwork – I had finally glimpsed at how Redwall looks like in Brian Jacque’s eyes. Most of the children I had read this book to spent more time looking at the illustrations than listening to the story (I would agree that text is, sadly, a bit too hard to comprehend for a small child as it is written in an unusual manner).
No matter how old I get, I still want to become a part of those books, to live in Redwall, or at least to visit it one day… I keep on coming back and re-reading those books. After all, as Brian Jacques said: “Please come back someday <…>You are always welcome here!”

"A charming read perfect for this time of year."

Too boring for my daughter to want to finish it...no fighting in the first ten pages. Even I was bored.