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The Redwall series captured the hearts of readers and critics alike with its exhilarating tales of the wondrous creatures of Redwall. Martin the Warrior continues the saga with the long-awaited history of Martin, Redwall's most glorious hero, who rises from slavery to become the greatest warrior the...

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Main Author: Jacques, Brian (Author)
Other Authors: Chalk, Gary (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ace Books, 1995.
Series:Jacques, Brian. Redwall books ; 6.
Subjects:
Redwall Abbey (Imaginary place) > Juvenile fiction.
Mice > Juvenile fiction.
Animals > Juvenile fiction.
Fantasy fiction > Juvenile.
Animal fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:The Redwall series captured the hearts of readers and critics alike with its exhilarating tales of the wondrous creatures of Redwall. Martin the Warrior continues the saga with the long-awaited history of Martin, Redwall's most glorious hero, who rises from slavery to become the greatest warrior the land would ever know. Captured and enslaved by the corsair stoat Badrang, young mouse warrior Martin vows to end the evil beast's plundering and killing.
Item Description:"Originally published in 1993 by Hutchinson Children's Books, London"--Title page verso.
Series book order based on publication order, as recommended by author, rather than chronological order.
Martin the Warrior would be book 2 chronologically.
Physical Description:376 pages : map ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780441001866
0441001866
9780399226700
0399226702
9780785765004
078576500X
9781413146783
1413146783
Author Notes:Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15, 1939. After he finished St. John's School at the age of fifteen, he became a merchant seaman and travelled to numerous ports including New York, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Tiring of the lonely life of a sailor, he returned to Liverpool where he worked as a railway fireman, a longshoreman, a long-distance truck driver, a bus driver, a boxer, a police constable, a postmaster, and a stand-up comic. During the sixties, he was a member of the folk singing group The Liverpool Fishermen. He wrote both poetry and music, but he began his writing career in earnest as a playwright. His three stage plays Brown Bitter, Wet Nellies, and Scouse have been performed at the Everyman Theatre.

He wrote Redwall for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where he delivered milk as a truck driver. His style of writing is very descriptive, because of the nature of his first audience, for whom he painted pictures with words, so that they could see them in their imaginations. After Alan Durband, his childhood English teacher, read Redwall, he showed it to a publisher without telling Jacques. This event led to a contract for the first five books in the Redwall series. He also wrote the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He died on February 5, 2011.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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