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Blue4Orange
Since: Oct, 2011
GordonWay
Since: Mar, 2011
2012-04-12 19:17:02
In fact, the hedgehog gets hit by a bicycle(?) while crossing the road, causing him to bump his head, after which he mixes up all his words. "My ache bads headly!"
The title, appropriately, is "The Hodgeheg". It's by Dick King-Smith, author of "Babe".
Blue4Orange
Since: Oct, 2011

This has been bothering me for quite a while: I'm looking for a book a teacher read to the class when I was about 7.
It was most likely aimed at children, although it was just an average book, a reasonable size and unillustrated, with just text. The cover consisted of an average-looking (probably watercoloured) hedgehog who was smiling, and possible standing (on all fours) in the street.
If I remember correctly, the characters were not Civilized Animals, other than the fact that they spoke to one another. The whole novel was based on realism, not fantasy... aside from the talking hedgehogs of course, but they HAD to communicate somehow.
At one point in the novel, the main hedgehog got a "headache" and kept saying "KO" instead of "ok". Near the end of the novel, he exclaims, "my headache! It's gone!"
The teacher read this to us shortly after we learned about Road Safety, so that makes me think it was about this
hedgehog.
Can anyone help?
Edited by Blue4Orange