The other two, The Wreck and Rise of Whitson Mariner, and The Black Star of Kingston, should be read after reading Green Ember.įor those of us with voracious readers, it is quite the blessing to find a fantastic and enormous – more than 2,000 pages in all! – series like Green Ember. With that backstory, kids can start with this smaller, action-packed volume. The Last Archer and its sequels, The First Fowler and The Archer’s Cup, could serve as a good intro to the whole Green Ember series, because they stand on their own, and were a little simpler to follow for my own young listeners (ages 5-9). That’s out of order, but all the kids would have to know is that the rabbits are preparing for an enemy, and most rabbits are suspicious of the Longtreader family, because one of them had been a traitor…though the rest never were. There are three full-size sequels – Ember Falls, Ember Rising, and Ember’s End – as well as five small books that occur in the same rabbit world, but follow different characters. It’s this depth that makes this more than just a rollicking tale of rabbits in peril. Smith’s Christian worldview comes through in passages like this, that parallel the way we can recall a perfect past, and look forward to a perfected future.
Though God is never mentioned, and the rabbits have no religious observance of any kind, author S.D. A window into the past and the future world. The story begins with siblings. We make crutches and soups and have gardens and weddings and babies. This is childrens fiction, intended for preteens and early teens, so naturally, the heroes are children too. …we anticipate the Mended Wood, the Great Wood healed…. Or as one of the wisest of these rabbits puts it, Their former and peaceful realm fell to the wolves after it was betrayed from within, so now these rabbits in exile look forward to a time when the Great Wood will be restored. They escape to a community that is hidden away from the ravaging wolves, and made up of exiled rabbits that once lived in the Great Wood. It isn’t clear if mom, dad and baby Jack are dead…but it seems like that might well be, and that could be a bit much for the very young (I’m planning on skipping over that bit when I get to it with my preschool daughters). It’s this last detail that might warrant some caution as to how appropriate this would be for the very young. The story begins with siblings Pickett and Heather being torn from the only home they’ve known, pursued by wolves, and separated from their parents and baby brother. This is children’s fiction, intended for preteens and early teens, so naturally, the heroes are children too. Sarah Mackenzie, author of The Read-Aloud Family.“Rabbits with swords” – it’s an irresistible combination, and all I had to say to get my two oldest daughters to beg me to start reading.Īs you might expect of a sword epic, this has a feudal feel, with rabbit lords and ladies, and noble rabbit knights and, of course, villainous wolves. Sarah Clarkson, Author of Read for the Heart and Caught Up In A Story Go get it! Officially our favorite read-aloud ever. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every bend.Where will Heather and Picket land? How will they make their stand? A captivating story with sword-bearing rabbits, daring quests, and moments of poignant beauty, The Green Ember is a tale that will delight and inspire young readers to courage and creativity.
They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world. Till the Green Ember Rises, or the end of the world! Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures.
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