Mattimeo: A Tale From Redwall

I LOVE This series! My kids read it 20 plus years ago (and even met the author multiple times)! I read them along with the boys, and I thoroughly enjoyed them! Now, I have a 9 YO boy in my life, and he loves to read. With his parents' permission, I bought Redwall for him at Christmas. Mom said he LOVED it, so I got v 2 and 3 for his birthday. I hope to gift him all 23 books in the series, and want to purchase a set for myself to reread.This is a wonderful, fun series for young readers and their caregivers. Lovely characters, unlikely heroes/heroins and villians, and always sumptious food and festivities. I cannot recommend Redwall enough, especially if you like fantasy, adventure and using small forest creatures an heroes and villians.

I am loving the Redwall series, and Mattimeo is probably one of my favorites so far. I don't want to spoil any surprises for potential readers, so I will just say that the unexpected journey toward maturity that Mattimeo AND his friends take, held my attention to the very end, and kept me up way too late, trying to finish!I love how their character is developed through the things they encounter, and they are stretched beyond what they ever dreamed they could endure, let alone overcome. This is one of the themes I'm seeing in Redwall (that I particularly appreciate): sterling character is held high, yet imperfect "people" (beasts) are given grace at Redwall to fail and learn and grow from it. Things are attempted, against impossible odds, because it's the right thing to do, regardless of whether there is any chance of succeeding. Our world needs this so desperately today!Character development is rich and effortless in this series! Individuals are so vibrantly portrayed that I have to remind myself that this is fantasy and these are animals and not people that I know. Still, I feel they are friends. I hope many others will come to treasure this series and strive to uphold the universal ideals presented, of goodness, strength of character, kindness, and doing what's right, even against impossible odds.

This series is the best read I have found in the last 15 or 20 years!it has drama, it has suspense, it has action, it has sadness, it has happiness, it has humor, there are so many things that this book has going for it! yes it may be classified as a children's book, but I am not the only adult to read & enjoy & be hooked on this series of books.From page one, it grabs your attention & it never lets go till the end...but then it is really not the end because when you begin to read the next book, it too, gets you hooked from Page 1.I highly recommend this book & the series(22 books in all) to anyone, adult or younger, who likes a great story of how the hero saves the day with his charm, his humor & his bravery.

This book is about a young mouse warrior. The violence in it is animals fighting animals--good vs. bad. The 'sexual content' is a shy little animal with a crush on another shy little animal. Nothing graphic, only holding paws! The book is a quest and story about how parent animals leave their peaceful home to try to find their youngsters (the young warrior mouse and his friends) who have been snatched by "slaver" rats.The young ones are intelligent enough to plot how to escape, the parents are wise enough to follow the trail until they find their young ones, have a grand battle with the bad rats and rescue their young ones. The book ends with peace restored and the good animals win! Cute descriptive writing. Love that good wins over bad in the end!

I'm reading\listening to these in publication order, so this is book three. I liked this story a lot, once again. The audio levels seemed to be more constant than the last one, because I didn't have to do much volume adjusting. My biggest complaint is I found it difficult to understand the newt character, Scurl. Early on, I found Cynthia annoying, but she slowly matured and eventually did less whining. Once again, there are violence--and death--but it's all handled deftly. The author does a good job of showing that violence isn't something to take lightly and that violence always has consequences.I will be continuing on. I already have quite a few of the "full cast" recordings and I'm enjoying the Redwall experience. I do wish Audible would bring back the others, so I can fill in the gaps. If they don't, I'll pick up Kindle editions as I reach the gaps.

Havent yet got to book 3 but so far the series is wonderful. Written so well. Love them.

This book reminds me of an axiom about most trilogies: The first part is great, leading to a somewhat disappointing second part then an excellent third part in which the mistakes of the first two are eliminated or reduced. This holds true for the Redwall series thus far.This first book was fantastic. The second book does what many serial novels do by leaving me feeling as if I had missed something. I thought I had jumped into the middle of a story instead of starting at the beginning. This is compounded by the fact that it is supposed to be a prequel to the first novel.All the problems I had with the second novel are more than made up for in this one, which picks up almost two years (eight seasons) after the first book, eloquently reintroduces any recurring characters, and works into the new plot marvellously. This book could almost stand on its own as a good read with a complete beginning, middle, and end, something which most epic fantasy adventure serial novels do not do.I highly recommend this book and the entire Redwall series!