Very sweet books, adorable pictures with lots of detail, and we all loved them. I’m an old-fashioned Anglophile, and they’re just my cup of tea. I love cute little dressed animals, and hedgerows, and punting, and village fetes. We were so into these books that I even made some stuffed animals of the characters, and some quilts back when a British company used to print Brambly Hedge fabric! But if you don’t LOVE theses books like we do, you could certainly do without them. Nothing BAD about them, but I don’t think they’re great literature or necessary for the well-educated person. Look at them at the library before plonking down the $$$. Best wishes, Sue