The Adventures of Hare and Snail.: Book One. The Frog Prince.

By Angela K James

Snail is adventurous, like any garden snail, he can be found halfway up a drainpipe or hiding under a rock, slowly moving through 'the garden' using the flowers, plants and insects as guides to which predators are around. There are many.Hare is brave, mostly because he has few predators. Being aware of foxes, buzzards and ha

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angela K James
• Release date: Apr 30, 2024
• ISBN: 9781399949170

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Introduction.

Between a river and the sea is a little hill, nestled halfway up the hill is a yellow cottage, home to 'the gardener'. The cottage is surrounded by a meadow at the back and a woodland to the side and a lawn that is bordered by hawthorn bushes, brambles and the odd bamboo stalk which the sparrows use as a look-out post. At the bottom of the lawn is a small pond where the stream collects during the rainy season, and there lives a frog. There's also a fox, a clan of badgers, rather a lot of birds and insects of course, but most importantly a Hedge Brownie and his friend, a snail.

A Hedge Brownie is important because they are very useful to gardeners and are extremely good at keeping a garden running like clockwork, encouraging particular plants to grow in certain places and guiding the little creatures to where they are needed the most, for example; The garden path can get very slippy and dangerous, especially after the rain. So what better than a snail to eat up all of those fallen leaves and flowers and, inadvertently pollinating a few too. You've probably seen them. What you are unlikely to see is a Hedge Brownie; they are