Watership Down
Richard Adams
Reading Level: 6.2
Interest Level: Upper Grades
Hardcover
ISBN: 068483605X, Published by Scribner, 448 pages.
Paperback
ISBN: 0380002930, Published by Avon, 494 pages.
My father bought this and enjoyed it, and I did too. It's about the adventure in the lives of several rabbits, in some country area in England.
My only reservation is the usual one about the anthropomorphizing of animals. I'm sorry, rabbits are food, prey species - not sentient beings. I don't think it helps for children to get the wrong attitude about this. However it seems it is pointless to complain. The whole world does it.
Paul Bonneau
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