Winner of the 1995 Children's Book Award. Delightful tale of a young girl's encounter with an alien who comes to earth in the form of a talking hare. With b/w line drawings by Valerie Littlewood. Readership level: 8 - 12 years Hares don't talk. But the hare Harriet meets one morning in a corn circle in her father's wheatfield is a very unusual hare: a visitor from the far-off planet Pars, come to spend his holidays on Earth in the form of a talking hare.