Redwall is awesome, though the stories all feel the same after you read a few.
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"Evil rat is attacking Abbey, ask giant Badger for help".
"Evil sea rat-pirate is evil and enslaving people, mice and rabbits hares defeat them"".
"Misunderstood rat is sad and helps good guys against another horde of evil rats".
"Awesome warrior mouse's sword helps some other animal defeat evil rat warlord."
"Awesome warrior mouse makes tons of friends in a strange land, and saves them from some evil horde of rats."
The author was awesome though, went to a book signing, he was crazy awesome British.
(He joked he worked with Christopher Lee, but I think he was being serious.)