I love this book, and have another copy firmly tucked away in my personal collection. A story about rabbits may sound like children's fictions, but it certainly is not that.

Release planned for Saturday, July 17, 2004 at BCUK 2004 Unconvention @ Apres Bar, Summerrow in Birmingham, England Controlled Releases.

Bought this for someone's wishlist, but they already had it. I hope someone at the Unconvention will want to give this marvellous book a go.

One of many many many books that I caught at the National Meet in Birmingham today - thanks for organising it Steve! This was on my wishlist.

I didn't think this was anywhere near as good as it is made out to be. It took me about 2/3 of the book to start getting into it, and the only reason I got that far is because it is a Big Read book and I have said I am going to read all of them! I got a bit bored with the day to day life of the rabbits, and didn't think that much happened until they started associating with the Efrafa warren.

This is off to HoserLauren in Canada today.

The bunnies arrived today!
I'm also doing the BBC top 100 read, so sandy and I exchanged books to help each other out towards this goal!
Thanks for sending it, I'm looking forwards to reading it, and hope that it's not a hard read!

In a warren of rabbits, Fiver sees that it is no longer safe to stay in their current home. He tells his brother Hazel who knows by now to trust Fiver's instincts. They gather up as many rabbits as they can and wind up with an interesting group because the strongest won't listen to Fiver. The group sets out on their journey, encountering elil (animals that want to hunt them), people, other rabbits, farms, and finally Watership Down. They start to make their home there and then need to start worrying about how to sustain their home without does to mother new bunnies.

When you think of a book about rabbits, you may think children's book. This is definitely not a book for young ones. Though it's an incredibly endearing story of survival, there are some pretty violent and scary parts of the book for young readers.

The characters in this book are what makes it. In the new warren, all the rabbits balance each other out. I really liked seeing some of the less physical rabbits taking charge and other rabbits relying on them for their smarts. The more physical rabbits know how to pull their weight and don't have any problems talking through problems and coming to consensus. Imagine if the business world worked like this book. All businesses would be making billions!

There were times where I thought this book was a bit slow. Rabbits are story-tellers and some of the stories they told, though they parallel what is happening in the book, I felt to slow the pace of the book down a bit too much.

This is a lovely book. Everyone should read it at some point.

To the finder of this book: I hope you enjoy reading this book. Please keep it or set it free when you're done. If the book is of no interest to you, please release it into the wild for someone else to find and enjoy. I hope you will make a journal entry so its journey can be tracked and to let me know the book has been found. You can remain anonymous if you wish, but if you join BookCrossing, you are in for a great experience.