The Hedgehog: A Story

A story to delight the most discerning child The Hedgehog will also charm and impress adult readers. H.D. enthusiasts in particular will find much to think about in this neglected small classic. With its belated reappearanceonly three hundred copies were originally printed in England some fifty years agocomes the joy of a book true to the real shape and feel of things in childhood. The tale concerns a fatherless Anglo-American child Madge living with her mother in Switzerland safe from the approach of WWII but not from growing up. From her first concernsdesires to walk barefoot to climb the sheerest goat paths up mountainsides and to learn (without letting on to her ignorance) about mysterious herissons (hedgehogs)Madge moves to the edge of more adult woes. The great pleasure of The Hedgehog stems from H.D.s quicksilver creation of a childs world.