It is Christmas Eve and growing dark when Squirrel and Hare hear the sound of ringing bells...Little Grey Rabbit is returning to the little house on the edge of a wood with Hare and Squirrel's Christmas present: a beautiful scarlet sledge. With great excitement they all take it to their favourite hill. But later that night careless, adventurous Hare takes the sledge for a moonlight ride and loses it. On Christmas day all the woodland creatures are invited to a party by kind Moldy Warp the Mole. When Little Grey Rabbit, Squirrel and Hare see the tree with candles on every branch, and beneath it piles of cakes, jars of honey and bottles of hawthorn ale, the sad business of the sledge is almost forgotten. But the biggest surprise of all is when Rat comes up to them with the lost sledge -- piled high with presents. AGE 4-8 as well as adults who will remember Little Grey Rabbit from their own childhoods.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Collins Colour Cubs, Colour Cubs, Little Grey Rabbit, Little Grey Rabbit Library .

There are 28 pages in this book. This book was published in 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Margaret Tempest was a well known illustrator of children's books in England in the early part of this century. Her partnership with Alison Uttley on the Little Grey Rabbit books lasted for nearly 40 years. Alison Uttley (1884-1976) said of her characters,"Why do children love them? Because I believe in them. "She grew up at Castle Top Farm in Derbyshire, and her passion for the countryside comes across vividly in her timeless Little Grey Rabbit stories.