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A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.
"Quite marvelous...A powerful new vision of the great chain of being."
More Reviews and RecommendationsThe winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for Children's Literature, Richard Adams currently lives in Hampshire, England.
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January 03, 2010: This was the first novel that I stayed up late reading (with a flashlight under the covers so my folks wouldn't know I was up past my bedtime)! Worth reading again and again - an enchanting story.
P.S. This is also a particularly good story for reading out loud to older children and adults (a chapter or two a night).Reader Rating:
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December 29, 2009: I read it and it is awful. Richard Adams is very good at giving detail and writing about rabbits but not writing an exciting story. I mean really I don't want to read about a book that has talking rabbits who don't really do anything. You might like this book if you like animals or stories that are very detailed. I could not finish this book it was just so boring and I love reading. I think Watership Down is a long story where there is almost No action, or excitement.

Several fights and one intense siege occur; a major character is shot, a supporting character has been tortured, and others are injured by hostile rabbits. The rabbits are attacked and menaced by other animals and by hostile rabbits.
Rabbit-language oaths are translated to mild English swearing; another animal also cusses mildly in English.
Mild references to courtship and bearing young.
About Watership Down
Parents need to know that Richard Adams's larger-than-life story is compelling and full of high adventure, and his characters are vividly drawn and winning. Experienced fantasy fans cheer the heroes on. This rousing story of a band of rabbits who escape persecution to create a just society is full of clever strategies, a self-contained rabbit mythology, and much detail about nature.
Families can talk about why this novel, which was intended for adults, was peopled with the unlikiest of main characters -- rabbits. When humans do pop up in the story, what is their role? In what ways can this seemingly straightforward "bunny story" be seen as an allegory for the perils of human civilization?