| Watership Down Contributor(s): Adams, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 068483605X ISBN-13: 9780684836058 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Fantasy - Epic - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 880 |
| Series: Scribner Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.35" H x 6.56" W x 9.48" (1.59 lbs) 448 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 749 Reading Level: 6.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 25.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world--now a Emmy Award-winning Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, and Oscar and Grammy award-winning Sir Ben Kingsley. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for more than forty 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Adams, Richard: - Richard Adams, the son of a country doctor, was born in Newbury in England in 1920. He was educated at Bradfield College and Worcester College, Oxford. He served in the Second World War and in 1948 joined the civil service. In the mid-1960s he completed his first novel, Watership Down, for which he struggled for several years to find a publisher. It was eventually awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children's fiction for 1972. In 1974 he retired from the civil service and published a series of further books, including Shardik, Tales from Watership Down, Maia, The Plague Dogs, and The Girl in a Swing. Adams died on Christmas Eve, 2016. |