An epic story that has been beloved for generations, Watership Down has become one of the most famous animal stories ever written.

Fiver, a young rabbit, is very worried. He senses something terrible is about to happen to the warren. His brother Hazel knows that his sixth sense is never wrong. So, there is nothing else for it.

They must leave immediately.

And so begins a long and perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver’s vision finally leads them to Watership Down, but here they face their most difficult challenge of all . . .

Richard Adams originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters and they insisted he publish it as a book. It quickly became a huge success with both children and adults, and won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal in 1972.

‘Aldo Galli brings a sense of intensified realism to his depictions in this 40th anniversary edition. Foliage is luxuriantly, impossibly green, and the edges of things – the feathers of birds, the fluff of dandelions – look as sharp as if they were cut from glass.’ ―  Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal

‘A treacherous journey and quest for survival – one to pick up, time and time again.’ ― The Guardian

‘Beautifully evoking the Berkshire countryside in poetic language, it is an exciting, moving and powerful novel.’ ― Book Trust

‘Beautifully written with some of the best characterisation you’ll come across in children’s literature, it tells the story of a group of rabbits and their will to survive despite human attempts to do otherwise. Full of adventure, humour, excitement and sadness it will enthral as much now as it did when it was first published.’ ― LoveReading4Kids