How did you first find out about Redwall?

[martins#1fan]

I got my hands on Season three, Martin the Warrior, for an AWESOME bargain price!
It will always be the one I read before anything else, though I love them ALL. 
Brian Jacques, Thank-you for writing these books, they've become my FAVORITE BOOKS and they are now my passion. I will always, ALWAYS LOVE REDWALL.
Furrrr and Freeeeeedooomm!!!EULALIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!REEEEEEEEDWAAAAAAAAAAALLLL!!

[rakkety tam]

i was at a library and i saw it i was like that looks cool so i got it

[Folgrimeo]

It all started in May 2005. I had recently finished "Watership Down" and loved it, so I was open to new book ideas. On a forum I often went to, there was a user named "Triss" who talked about Redwall. I briefly looked it up and saw warrior mice and red walls, looked interesting. Some time later I'm at the bookstore and I tell the person I want something that's like "Watership Down". He motions me over to a shelf lined with Redwall books. I instantly recalled what I saw earlier and dove into it. ...except I had a hard time deciding which book to pick first! I knew I should probably pick the first book, but that otter on "Taggerung" was so enticing... still, I started with the first one. After that I was in a Redwall craze and returned to that bookstore many times, picking up three more books per visit. Eventually did pick up "Taggerung" shortly before the bookstore closed. (later I'd finish off the collection by picking them up from Borders or Amazon).

Right after I finished the first book, I remembered that the warrior mice I saw in a Google image search couldn't have been illustrations. So some cartoon existed. Maybe I knew about the cartoon beforehand, but never really thought about it. So I'm looking and came across redwall.tv. As soon as I saw Martin's face (and spent a few minutes laughing at his great scowling expression), I knew that "Martin the Warrior" would have to be the second book I read. ...which eventually lead to me keeping an eagle eye out for the Season 3 DVD of the cartoon because that "Martin" book was awesome.

Sometime before December 2006, I finally got to see Season 3. And it was worth it. It also did a great service by demonstrating how molespeech sounds when spoken aloud, making me instantly forgive all the hateful things I said about molespeech in the books.
(personally I prefer Season 2 thanks to "Mattimeo"'s stronger storyline and Tim Curry's performance as Slagar, but Season 3 really nailed the ending)

[Nightfire]

I found a mysterious, olde scripted book on my mom's bookshelf. I was already a person who would read anything possible, so the idea of a book more than a centimeter thick intrigued me. Since then, I won't read ANYTHING unless it is one inch thick or more. As soon as I saw the molespeech in the book, I was entranced.

[Lily]

(personally I prefer Season 2 thanks to "Mattimeo"'s stronger storyline and Tim Curry's performance as Slagar, but Season 3 really nailed the ending)

I've never seen the TV series, and I didn't really want to until I read this. Tim Curry as Slagar? That is perfect!

I remember the first time I read Mossflower I had to ask my Dad what the moles were saying. I got used to it, but that first time was very confusing!

[Redwall Musician]

It's seem that mole speech was hard for me to understand too. But I don't remember for sure. I joke with my brother about moles and their weird speech. He always laughs about them. And hares. Whenever I talk like a hare, or tell him about how hares talk, he thinks it's funny.

[martins#1fan]

I have little to no trouble understanding mole speech. 

[brocka]

I was just browsing kids books in a local library, with a mind toward writing some. The title on the binding made me laugh: "Mossflower? Ther are no flowers on moss" I said. Borrowed it, read it, loved it. Still my favorite.

[Skalrag of Marshank]

I saw the TV series and fell in love. I HAD to read the books after that. I always feel guilty because I didn't read the book before the show.

[Matthias720]

I saw the TV series and fell in love. I HAD to read the books after that. I always feel guilty because I didn't read the book before the show.

Don't feel guilty. That's the way I discovered Redwall, too.

[Balvayne]

I found the book lying around my uncle's house and asked if I could borrow it. From there, I obviously loved it = p

[Skalrag of Marshank]

I like how the characters look in the show.

[GeminyaTome]

Did any of you ever do Barnes and Nobles' Summer Reading Plan? One year when I did it, I looked at the books, and there was only trash. My Mom had heard many families say that they LOVED Redwall, so when she found it on the reading list, she suggested to me. I was actually very reluctant to read it, but after one chapter, and it was an extremely short chapter too, I was hooked. I've been buying every single one I can get my hands on ever since!

[Coobreedan]

I find out about Redwall five years ago when I was in Year 2 (which I think is equal to 3rd Grade). Me and all of my friends used to watch it all of the time. I remember watching all of Redwall and Mattimeo.
Thousands of years later, I started to read the Harry Potter books because I wasn't aloud to watch the films. After reading them all, I had nothing at all left to read. Then I had a flashback.
I was sitting watching Slagar talking to Malkariss on the TV show. Then the flashback changed. I was in the library, looking in admiration at Eulia! and High Rhulian on the shelves.
The flashback then ended, and I rushed to the library. I went on this very website (before the forum was created) to check the order of the books. It said that Brian recommends reading them in publication order, so I looked for which one was first in publication order. It was Redwall. I checked everywhere for Redwall, but I couldn't find it. I asked the librarian if they had Redwall, but they said they hadn't. She spent an hour checking libraries all over England for Redwall, but it was nowhere.
After our long search, I went home and sat in bed, wishing that Redwall actually existed.
The following day was just as hopeless. I looked in book stores, on eBay, but still no luck. I went to bed again. Whilst in bed, I wondered what to read. Then I had an idea. I decided to read Di-
Then my dad came in.
"Guess what I've got?"
He passed me a book. I looked at the cover, with a rat riding on some horses, with a hay cart of weasels and rats (and stoats but I didn't know what they were then). Above the picture was the word REDWALL. Above Redwall it said BRIAN JACQUES.

And that's how the glorious adventure began.

[Matthias720]

I find out about Redwall five years ago when I was in Year 2 (which I think is equal to 3rd Grade). Me and all of my friends used to watch it all of the time. I remember watching all of Redwall and Mattimeo.
Thousands of years later, I started to read the Harry Potter books because I wasn't aloud to watch the films. After reading them all, I had nothing at all left to read. Then I had a flashback.
I was sitting watching Slagar talking to Malkariss on the TV show. Then the flashback changed. I was in the library, looking in admiration at Eulia! and High Rhulian on the shelves.
The flashback then ended, and I rushed to the library. I went on this very website (before the forum was created) to check the order of the books. It said that Brian recommends reading them in publication order, so I looked for which one was first in publication order. It was Redwall. I checked everywhere for Redwall, but I couldn't find it. I asked the librarian if they had Redwall, but they said they hadn't. She spent an hour checking libraries all over England for Redwall, but it was nowhere.
After our long search, I went home and sat in bed, wishing that Redwall actually existed.
The following day was just as hopeless. I looked in book stores, on eBay, but still no luck. I went to bed again. Whilst in bed, I wondered what to read. Then I had an idea. I decided to read Di-
Then my dad came in.
"Guess what I've got?"
He passed me a book. I looked at the cover, with a rat riding on some horses, with a hay cart of weasels and rats (and stoats but I didn't know what they were then). Above the picture was the word REDWALL. Above Redwall it said BRIAN JACQUES.

And that's how the glorious adventure began.

Simply epic!