It's not always easy being brave - especially if you are a deer mouse and only six inches long (and three inches of that is your tail).
Nevertheless, Poppy, with her beautiful orange-brown fur and dark round eyes is forced through necessity to become braver than any other mouse. She and her family live on the edge of the sprawling, sinister Dimwood Forest. They are ruled over by Mr Ocax, a great horned owl who dwells in Dimwood. But the mice are not just his subjects. They are also his dinners . . .
The mice want to move away to a new home where there is space to grow, but Mr Ocax forbids it. Poppy resolves to explore the possibilities, regardless of the consequences should she be caught. And the journey will take her right across Dimwood and the strange animals that call it home . . .
Deftly mixing humour, horror and pathos, 'Poppy' is a colourful, memorable journey of courage and self-discovery for the child in us all. It is the first of four griping books that make up 'The Dimwood Forest Chronicles'.
