A Puffin Book
- stories that last a lifetime Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo A Puffin Book There are 20 titles to collect in the series listed below all with exciting new covers & fun-filled endnotes Watership Down by Richard Adams has become one of the most famous animals adventures ever written In this epic story a young rabbit called Fiver senses that something terrible is about to happen to the warren
- he is sure of it Fiver's sixth sense is never wrong according to his brother Hazel They had to leave immediately & they had to persuade the other rabbits to join them & so begins a long & 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 grew up in Berkshire the son of a country doctor After an education at Oxford he spent six years in the army & then went into the Civil Service He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters & they insisted he publish it as a book It quickly became a huge success with both children & adults & won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award & the Carnegie Medal in 1972 Richard Adams has written many novels & short stories including Shardik & The Plague Dogs Also available in A Puffin Book GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM & BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian CHARLOTTE'S WEB STUART LITTLE & THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E B White THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D Taylor A DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce GOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams CARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden MRS FRISBY & THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O' Brien A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L' Engle THE CAY by Theodore Taylor TARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams SMITH by Leon Garfield THE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende ANNIE by Thomas Meehan THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett