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Watership Down
Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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May 1, 2016
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New School Classics- 1915-2005
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Suvi
Jun 24, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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I remember liking it but I have to read it again to review it properly.
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When Richard Adams was shopping Watership Down around to publishers, he got a ton of rejections. It was thought younger kids wouldn't like it because it got too sad, and older kids wouldn't because it was about bunnies.

The book eventually found a sizable audience. But I admit, the bunny angle is what kept me from reading it when I was a kid. My loss.

The rabbits in this story must find a new home. One of them has been having visions of their current one being torn apart by humans. Along the way t ...more
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