Dogs and Hares

Dogs and Hares are like cats and mice. That, at least, is the situation in idyllic Beethorpe-on-Bee. The Dog and Hare families have been at daggers drawn for generations, and look all set to remain enemies till kingdom come – unless things change, as is their wont, sooner or later. It’s a tale with a moral that Rotraut Susanne Berner serves us here, with her usual wit, verbal and visual, an impressive plea for tolerance.

Nobody remembers how and why the feud between the Dog and Hare families started in the first place, but this much is certain: There’s no love lost between them. Dogs think Hares are, well, hare-brained. And Hares think that Dogs put on dog.

At the annual race at Hound’s Heath Dick Dog and Harry Hare find themselves the main contestants. For miles on end they race it out, neck to neck, until a terrible thunderstorm breaks out, with bolts of lightning coming down right, left, and centre. The common threat, the fear of death, makes them reluctant allies – and together they’re brave, brave enough even to save Gabriella Hog’s little daughter…

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