Illustrated by Meg Rutherford
Publisher: Andre Deutsch 1988, first printing. Believed to be true 1st edition. ISBN: 0233982981. Hardcover with illustrated boards, no jacket (likely as issued). 8vo (8.25" tall), b/w illustrations throughout. Very good condition - light soiling, corner bumping, sticker residue on front. Interior pages clean & unmarked, slight age tanning on endpages.
Review:
"When a brother and sister, "both about ten, " discover a dead doe hare by the side of a road, they find it too beautiful to bury without a "proper funeral. " At school, they, and 13 classmates, spontaneously decide to create a story about the hare so that it will stay alive for them even after the burial. Their invention creates a cosmic choice for the hare, who, although dead, is yet alive in a different state of being. Should she choose to go to an eternally peaceful Valley where she will be the Queen of the Hares, or should she go to a place where dwell animals whose purchase on eternity is guaranteed by the fact that they are characters in children's stories?
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