An Edge of the Forest (ePub)

"The right sort of children, if they read it now, will be haunted by the memory all their lives." -C. S. Lewis

A beloved, classic fantasy about unlikely friendships in a mythical forest is available as an e-book for the first time.

When a lamb is driven into a mythical forest by a sheep-dog, he is rescued by a crippled, black leopardess. Despite their animal natures, the beautiful leopardess and other creatures of the mythical forest gather together to protect the little lamb and return him to his flock. A powerful allegory of self-discovery, redemption, and peaceful co-existence woven together by Smith's masterful prose.

First published in 1959, An Edge of the Forest received a New York Herald Tribune Children's Book Award, the Aurianne Award of the American Library Association, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award of the Wisconsin Book Conference, and was dramatized in four parts for broadcast by the B.B.C. Home Service school programs, transmitted "in the United Kingdom only.

"Here, one feels, is an author writing as all should and so few do, out of the desire to express something deeply felt, an author who can mingle deftly the incredible and the true to gain her ends, an author who can move the reader." -New York Herald Tribune

"This is the best animal fiction I have read since Tarka the Otter." -William Golding

"It is certainly a remarkable piece of writing, which conquers by its unity of concept and purity of style....The effect is of a Blake poem extended upon a timeless frieze of forest." -The Manchester Guardian

"It is not just a book but a gift such as might bring a sudden, magical understanding of the truth at the core of every person and every thing." -The Horn Book

"I think it is no exaggeration to claim this book a palce along the best of Kipling and 'Wind in the Willows'." -Richard Church