It is early summer in Brambly Hedge, and the mill is no place to be raising a family. Poppy's new babies are crying, Dusty's millstones are clattering, and flour dust hangs in the air. The other mice set to work on a plan, and Wilfred, remarkably, manages to keep it quiet until the babies' Naming Day. Poppy's Babies is the eighth Brambly Hedge book, published in 1994, fourteen years after the original four. Jill Barklem's watercolors are as dense with detail as ever, full of cutaway rooms, laid tables, and small domestic arrangements worth going back to look at twice.

• 32 pages
• 5.8" x 6.9" x 0.3"
• Ages 5+