Calling all Watership Down fans, post your Q's to Richard Adams to find out everything you've ever wanted to know about this epic novel.

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WATERSHIP DOWN FANS take note: Now is your chance to ask author Richard Adams everything you've ever wanted to find out about this epic novel and his other work.

Post your questions before the 23 November and you'll be entered into a prize draw to win one of three book-sets signed by Adams, which include Shardik, Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, and Tales From Watership Down.

Adams - who currently lives in Hampshire with his wife Elizabeth, to whom he has been married for 65 years - originally began telling the story of Watership Down, his first book, to his two daughters to while away a long car journey to Stratford-on-Avon. They insisted he write it down, and it became a huge success on publication with people of all ages, winning both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal. Watership Down is now considered a modern classic, and recently appeared at number 37 on the Sunday Times list of bestsellers in the last 40 years.

We'll be sending over your questions to Richard on the 23 November; answers will be posted on this thread approximately two weeks later.

I loved this book as a child. I still have my childhood copy. It is in bits, the pages have come away from the spine and I think one or two are missing. It is one of my most beloved possessions from my childhood.

So many of us have grown up with this amazing book. It is just a beautiful story. I have read it so many times. I can't wait until my children are old enough to read it and then they can enjoy it and we can share it together.

Thank you Richard.

@hebihebi

Watership Down is my favourite book of all time and I love the society that they aspired to build. I have read it many times over. My favourite line is when Bigwig says that his Chief Rabbit told him to stay and defend this run. It always brings tears to my eyes.

But I'm surprised it's considered a children's book. Surely that can't be correct? Do you consider it a children's book?

I have added Shardik to my reading list. Thank you!

I think some people consider it to be a children’s book but I don’t. I am against the whole conception of a children’s book. There are only books that people like reading. Take The Wind in the Willows – lots of adults like reading that too. I think there is no such thing as a children’s book, but there is a book that children like reading. Take Peter Rabbit. That has altered childhood. Before that there were no such favourites. There are more that 20 of Beatrix Potter’s stories and everybody reads them.