The Wild Before Piers Torday Blog Tour

The Wild Before by Piers Torday

Hardback published by Quercus 19th August 2021

This is the story of one small animal’s quest to save the world.

When Little Hare discovers a silver- coloured calf, born between the light of the full moon, he is determined to protect her. Because animals legend predicts that if anything happens to this mooncalf, a great Terribleness will come.

But keeping danger at bay is easier said than done, and soon Little-Hair realises that he’ll need every creature’s help if he has any hope of keeping Mooncalf safe.

MY REVIEW

The Wild Before is a beautiful book about a hare named Little-Hare that has left the valley where he was born a whole moon ago in Dandelion Hill.

Little-Hare has urgent news from the wild from Dandelion Hill, in the south. In order to deliver his urgent news he has to travel to the north in the Wild. But Little-Hare needs to be careful as he reaches the north in the wild he is circled by some hungry wolves. Little-Hare doesn’t seem that frightened of them as he refuses to tell them his urgent news and insists he is under strict orders to the Wildness only. The wolves are unhappy telling Little-Hare that they are the Guardians of wild and they decide who can speak to their Wildness.

In Old Farm in Bristly Hedge during the snow with ice frosted days food was hard to find for Little-Hare Run–Hare, Bite-Hare. An amazing thing happens when Little-Hare finds a calf unlike any calf he had ever seen, naming the calf Mooncalf.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Wild Before by Piers Torday who has written my favourite story with lovely creative animals, it’s honestly an escape to an imagery adventure with Hares that in my view is the next king of children’s animal tales just like children’s author Ronald Dahl.

This book is published by Hachette Children’s Group who is the largest children’s publisher in the UK, with an excellent track record in creating bestselling and award-winning books for children. The group aims to cater for every child, with baby and pre-school books, and picture books.

I would like to thank Midaspr for sending me this hardback to read and review and for kindly inviting me to take part in this amazing blog tour.

ABOUT AUTHOR PIERS TORDAY

Piers Torday began his career in theatre and then television as a producer and writer. He has written several critically acclaimed books for children as well as finishing a novel by his late father and adapting classical novels for the stage. He has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. He won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2014.

The Last Wild (Shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize), The Dark Wild (Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize), The Wild Beyond, There May Be a Castle (People’s Book Award finalist) and The Lost Magician (Teach Primary Book Award) and The Frozen Sea. His latest book is The Wild Before (August 2021). His work has been translated into 14 languages.