Q&A
Where did you come up with the name for the "Dibbuns"?
It just seemed a cosy roundish cuddly name for toddlers, it just came to me.
Considering that you started out writing Redwall stories for the blind, have any of your books ever been published in Braille? If so, which ones?
Each of my books is available to the National Library for the Blind here in Britain and each has been translated into Braille as it has been published. The Library runs a free lending service to all blind people here and does tremendous work.
Several times in "Martin the Warior" Martin refers to "the warrior's code". Is this simply what is just and right, or is there a specific "Warrior's Code"?
The warriors code is the code of honesty, friendship and as you say doing what is just and right.
In "Redwall" Foremole exclaims that he will give the rats "'Owd 'arry." What does "'Owd 'arry" mean?
This is a country expression, one of the names for the devil is Old Harry!! So it is like saying 'there will be the devil to pay' and of course in Molespeak Old Harry becomes 'Owd 'arry'