“Mossflower” is a warm, eventful return to the world of “Redwall”, with a broader setting and a colourful cast of woodland creatures. Some readers praise its balance of adventure and comfort and, coming back to it as adults, find it still stands up. Others consider the characters short on depth or struggle with the prose style. Those who know “Redwall” will catch the nods to it.

The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.

About the book

Mossflower is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1988. It is the second book published and third chronologically in the Redwall series.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.1 across 235 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 62% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.

Source	Average	Ratings	Weight
Open Library	8.5	17	7%
Hardcover	8.1	218	93%

Frequently asked

What age is Mossflower for?

Mossflower sits on the Middle grade shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 8–12. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 432 pages — shorter than 69% of the ranked books in Adventure.