The Royal Rabbits (Volume 1)
£6.50£7.60 (-14%)
The adventure begins for brave little Shylo and his Royal Rabbit friends in this charming series from bestselling authors Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag Montefiore and illustrator Kate Hindley, that proves even the smallest rabbit can be the biggest hero.
Life is an adventure. Anything in the world is possible – by will and by luck, with a moist carrot, a wet noise and a slice of mad courage!
Shylo has always been the runt of the litter, the weakest and quietest of all of his family. His siblings spend their days making fun of him for not being like the rest of them. But when Shylo stumbles across a band of ratzis and overhears their evil plan to take a photo of the Queen in her nightie, it’s up to this unlikely hero to travel to London and inform the Royal Rabbits of London about the diabolical plot!
The Royal Rabbits have a proud history of protecting the royal family and now the secret society need to leap into action to stop the ratzis… But can a rabbit as feeble and shy as Shylo convince them that Queen is in danger?
Praise for The Royal Rabbits:
‘Packed with fun, fantasy and the sort of adventure guaranteed to have sticky little fingers hungrily turning the pages’ The Mail on Sunday
‘The Royal Rabbits is sweet, funny and beautifully illustrated’ The Times
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Additional information
| Publisher | Reissue edition (6 Aug. 2020), Simon & Schuster Children's UK |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 208 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1471194590 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1471194597 |
| Reading age | 7 years and up |
| Dimensions | 13 x 1.49 x 19.8 cm |
by MAC
A delightful book which I read before offering it to my 7 Year old granddaughter. Not sure how she will take some of the slightly scary bits but, as she loves rabbits, I hope she will enjoy it.
by Yorkshire Lass
What a super book and a suitably fascinating tale too that will, I am sure, delight children for many years to come. One sad point however. Why oh why are the beautiful illustrations not in colour? On the splendiferous cover of the book the regal rabbits look magnificent. However, inside they are only depicted in black and white and thereby lose a huge amount of character and a whole dimension by being so dull. All children adore colourful illustrations especially of well loved characters, as I feel certain these will become. If Peter Rabbit can be famous for his blue jacket why cannot the Royal Rabbits of London be revealed in glorious colour?
by Anne Wilson
Lovely read. Appealing to me as a bunny mad adult, and I’m sure it would be good for children too as it was intended for them
And there is another volume due out later this year! Yay
by Scrappydoo
Captivating, warm and lovely to read. We read this as our bed time story. My son who is 6 loved this book and being a little in the shy side loved Shylo Tawny Tail. Cant wait to read the next book in the series
by dorothy shaw
Fabulous book my granddaughter loved it would recommend highly for any child to read
by Mrs H
Very pleased with this book. Bought for my 9 year old Grandson for his birthday as he loves reading much like myself. Good value for money. Would recommend
by Amazon Customer
Fabulously entertaining book , i looked forward to reading it to the children . They are still taking about it .
Well written . Looking forward to the next book in the series !
by Rich Davey
I bought the book purely based on the description here on Amazon, as it sounded like the sort of title my daughter and I would enjoy reading together. She’s a more than capable reader but still enjoys a good bedtime story. And being about rabbits, her favourite animal, was a bonus. The concept of the book was really interesting: animals living normal family lives, in little houses hidden in the woods, the secret rabbits protecting the Royal Family and the pappa’ratzi’s wanting to expose them.
It felt like the authors had merged elements of James Bond, Kingsman and Watership Down together. Which is also part of the problem. The book is really quite dark in places and doesn’t shy away from a few notably violent deaths, bullying, and traumatic encounters. The world in which the animals reside is harsh and quite cruel, which somewhat flies in the face of the cover illustration that may lead you to think it’s going to be more jovial and carefree than it actually is.
All children are different of course, and I’m sure older ones would lap this up with gusto. Just be aware that while there is plenty of fantasy and action to be consumed, it comes with a side-order of darkness.