I love Redwall and Taggerung is my favorite book of all time ^_^ my favorite character is Denya

Yay more Redwall art. I love you....

i love redwall. it my favorite book series ever. i never read Taggerung though...

It is a good book!

Neat painting! Very nicely done, especially the water and the eyes. I've never readd Taggerung, myself. Is it one of the better Redwall books?

It seems like most fans who claim this book as their favorite because of the badass-by-design character Deyna(known as Tagg throughout most of the book).
However, despite him being an otter in all their glory and thus making it obligatory that I am supposed to like him, I kind of don't. I don't doubt he's a hard-ass, but as a character I think he didn't live up to what potential was established for him. A Redwall-born Woodlander raised by ruthless, tribal nomad vermin... and yet he managed to be utterly impervious to all things physical. emotional and especially moral. The idea of such is incredibly intriguing and would make some pretty incredible ideas for the series... but it fell short.

So how can I consider Taggerung to be one of my more favorite entries in the series when I don't like the lead protagonist? Simple, I absolutely love the antagonists. Rather than the usual single relatively intelligent villain commanding a massive army of idiots, it was a small band of bumbling, flawed creatures each with their own desires, these wishes often colliding with one another. I think Jacques here did a great job here by focusing on a small amount of characters and developing each of them.

I wouldn't consider just the vermin to have this kind of laudable detail though. The development of Cregga Rose Eyes acting as the badgermum made for a fantastic lead. She and Mhera were great. Also, Nimbalo of course was a very interesting character that, in some ways, shared many aspects with Martin the Warrior, except maybe not as modest and attentive but just as adventurous.

So now you have my brief literary analysis on... a children's book. -_-

lol. Wait, so was Tagg a hero or villain?

hero, yo

So, he overcame his evil upbringing to become a hero? Sounds like the same deal that happened in Outcast of Redwall. The same, crappy deal. :/

Well, except flip flopped.

Hmm, quite. I think Veil was a little bit more neutral. Tagg was pretty much pure good.

And then at the end, they still believe that Veil didn't have an ounce of good in him. What is Jacques trying to teach kids? It really comes off as a discriminatory message to me.

It kind of does doesn't it? I kind of thought that Bryony was a bit airheaded. And Bella seemed a bit out-of-character in Outcast book too. Maybe the consideration of him being pure evil was only perhaps out of pure ignorant prejudice against vermin that many Redwallers tend to keep.

Exactly. Although Jacques does his best to deny any sort of prejudice (frankly, the idea of prejudice against vermin could make for a VERY interesting Redwall book).

Very cute indeed. I love the Redwall books, especially "Taggerung" and "Pearls of Lutra". Can you guess why?

I really like your picture. It's kinda dark though.

I really like this.