Ellen Britton Animals can talk to each other and understand human language but people cannot hear them.  Nibbler, the grey rabbit at the centre of these stories learns this from Big Tom a big striped cat who knows everything.  Allowed the freedom of her garden by Grania when she realises that he is unhappy sitting in a hutch all day, Nibbler befriends Big Tom, plays with Lucy a young kitten and has a close encounter with tadpoles.  He has a vicious fight with Buck a nasty big white rabbit, is chased by two scary cocker spaniels and spends a night in Peadar and Teresa Reed’s kitchen, before he eventually moves to County Wicklow and his family.