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Tales from Watership Down Richard Adams
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Ironically, though, my very favorite book from later childhood on, Watership Down, is in many ways indebted to the Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox stories of Uncle Remus. Each rabbit character is drawn distinctly yet fairly realistically which adds to the characters. If passages from Shakespeare, Blake, and Saint Paul illuminate the tale, then surely it is more than an entertaining story about rabbits. […] It's only a made-up story, it's in no sense an allegory or parable or any kind of political myth. Watership Down (1972) is a very clever book. The original novel was one of my childhood favorites, and a book I still cherish. It's fantasy, certainly, but what Adams does is takes the realistic details of the lives of rabbits and then writes about them as if they were sapient. This meaning wasn't put in by the writer 'Well, I don't think there's any pro or anti-society in Watership Down, it's simply a tale. Did you know there's a book of short stories as a sequel to Watership Down also by Richard Adams? 'Watership Down' is Richard Adams' epic tale of how a brace of rabbits escaped the destruction of their warren, and hopped a few fields to start over. When this “sequel” first arrived more than ten years ago, I avoided it because it wasn't so much a novel as a collection of short stories. I have read Watership Down twice, and both times I finished with the same conclusion, insane good.