Harriet's Hare
by Dick King-Smith
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A young girl's life with her father on their farm in England is changed when she befriends a talking hare that is really a shape-changing alien.Tags
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Seven year old me would have loved this. Now I find it a bit too simplistic and earnest. Still, I do recommend it for the right audience, and will certainly continue to read more by the author.
Harriet Butler, 8 years old, is on summer vacation from school when one morning she notices a crop circle in the wheat field of the family farm in England, where she lives with her father, John. Riding her pony, Breeze, to check the crop circle oddity, she meets Wiz, a talking hare.
This story, written for grade school age children, runs quickly through Harriet's summer friendship with a very joyful (he practices joie de vivre) and interesting hare who happens to be visiting Earth. The hare has a positive and long-lasting effect on Harriet and her family, incorporating a bit of magic here and there.
There are also realistic farm moments involving caring for dairy cows--the head cow being Bluebell--harvesting wheat, and selling fresh show more eggs. After befriending Wiz, Harriet makes her father promise never to shoot the rabbits or hares living on their farm.
There is an underlying theme of compassionate care and concern for animals, which adds to the warm feelings we have for Harriet and her freespirit friend Wiz the Hare. show less
This story, written for grade school age children, runs quickly through Harriet's summer friendship with a very joyful (he practices joie de vivre) and interesting hare who happens to be visiting Earth. The hare has a positive and long-lasting effect on Harriet and her family, incorporating a bit of magic here and there.
There are also realistic farm moments involving caring for dairy cows--the head cow being Bluebell--harvesting wheat, and selling fresh show more eggs. After befriending Wiz, Harriet makes her father promise never to shoot the rabbits or hares living on their farm.
There is an underlying theme of compassionate care and concern for animals, which adds to the warm feelings we have for Harriet and her freespirit friend Wiz the Hare. show less
A young girl's life with her father on their farm in England is changed when she befriends a talking hare that is really an alien.
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Dick King-Smith was born on March 27, 1922 in Bitten, Gloucestershire, England. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a farmer and a schoolteacher. He served in the Grenadier Guards during World War II and attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire. He has written over 100 children's books including The Fox Busters, The Hodgeheg, and The Sheep show more Pig (aka Babe-The Gallant Pig), which was adapted as the 1995 film Babe. The 1995 TV miniseries The Queen's Nose was also based in one of his books. He was voted Children's Author of the Year at the 1991 British Book Awards. He died on January 4, 2011 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Important places
- planet Pars
- First words
- Harriet sat up, suddenly wide awake. What was that noise?
- Quotations
- I don't need thanks, Harriet. It is I who am grateful to you for making my trip to Earth such fun. All I ask you to do is to be kind to my daughters, to all hares, to all animals, for the rest of your long life.
page 88 - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But to her and her alone, it was a portrait of a wizard, of a beast of magic who for a thousand full moons to come would remain, as he had always been, Harriet's hare.
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