The Hodgeheg (Puffin Modern Classics)
This read was brought to me by Twitter, at least, a post on Twitter which I'd seen about a commuter on the Tube, who was listening to a mother read to her young son, and who was then resigned to missing his stop so that he could find out the end of the story. This intrigued me, and I had to find out what the story... and ending was, too.