The Legend of Podkin One-Ear

Winner of the 2017 Blue Peter Book Award, awarded by the BBC since 2006.

A snow-white blanket covers the broad slopes of hills known as Sharp Ridge.

Shush-shush. Shush-shush. Someone is trudging through deep snow, and the sound of heavy footsteps travels far in the night silence. On the eve of Cumanielnik—the holiday of the winter solstice—there came a bard into a burrow called Thornwood. On his shoulders was only a ragged outfit worn through journeys, and in his head—countless tales. And one of them he prepared for curious rabbits, who had gone quiet beside the hearth in eager anticipation.

This is a story about Podkin One-Ear—the rabbit who became so great that legends about his bravery have been told for many years. It begins in a snowy forest, when he, his sister Paz, and his little brother Pik, having been left without a home and without parents, run from the cruelest enemy in their lands. Spoiled and distracted, Podkin must gather his courage, become a leader, and protect his family…