Making this a family read aloud for the summer. Ask and answer questions about books You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the. One night while watching The Walking Dead a scene where the people in Alexandria were so willi. They insisted he publish the tale as a book. He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters, Juliet and Rosamond, on a trip to Stratford-on-Avon, to see a play. Even better, if you’ve got kids, consider One of my favorite books is Watership Down by Richard Adams. Richard George Adams (born 9 May, 1920) is best-remembered as the author of Watership Down, but wrote many other novels, short stories, poems and a biography. If you somehow missed this book in yourĮlementary/middle school years, it’s time to put it on your TBR. My sixth-grade teacher, Rhea Lindstrom, wasĪn amazing teacher and I can’t think of this book without thinking of her.

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”.

“To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse-the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.”.

“I’d rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can’t.”.

But when you get there you find it’s not that simple.”

“You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing.“If there’s going to be a story, don’t you think I’ve got as good a right as anyone to choose it?”.

And it doesn’t matter if you read it in sixth grade or as an adult, this story will get to you. The story is about a group of rabbits who flee their home to find safety, but the substories about their relationships, their desire for community, and the evolving definition of home are what make the book so moving. Set in Hampshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. We did it in sixth grade as a read-aloud and I remember there were times when the whole class, my teacher included, sniffled our way through Fiver’s journey. Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Watership Down by Richard Adams is a book that brings back a flood of emotions.

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