A children’s book which my Dad read to me when I was about 5. About a hare running from the hunt .. I remember feeling her fear .. for herself and her babies back home in the burrow .. When she arrived back safely with her babies I cried and cried !
It was a hardcover with pictures and the story .. a4 on its side . I think it had a dust cover as well ..
There are no babies in the burrow at the end (could it have been rabbits, rather than hares?), but William Mayne’s ‘Come, Come to my Corner’ published 1986, is the illustrated tale of a hare being hunted and escaping the dangers.