num_pages: 478
description: Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN13 9780140039580.Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of our time. Sandleford Warren is in danger. Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen. And why would they when it is Spring and the grass is fat and succulent? So together Hazel and Fiver and a few other brave rabbits secretly leave behind the safety and strictures of the warren and hop tentatively out into a vast and strange world. Chased by their former friends, hunted by dogs and foxes, avoiding farms and other human threats, but making new friends, Hazel and his fellow rabbits dream of a new life in the emerald embrace of Watership Down...
language: English
title: Watership Down
titlecomplete: Watership Down
characters: Hyzenthlay, Frith, Bigwig, El-Ahrairah, Fiver, Pipkin, Kehaar, General Woundwort, Hazel, Dandelion, Silver (Watership Down), Blackberry
genres: Fiction, Animals, Adventure, Young Adult, Literature, Classics, Novels, Childrens, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 472751
places: England, United Kingdom, Hampshire, England, Watership Down, Hampshire
series: Watership Down
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 1577865600000
name: Audie Award
category: Best Male Narrator, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: Penguin Books