The Watership Down Film Picture Book: With Linking Text

by Richard Adams

Book Overview

1978 Macmillan first American Edition. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0020160607
• ISBN13: 9780020160601
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Beautiful

It's a sequence of pictures taken from the animated movie with brief captions written by Richard Adams, but when it's frozen on the page like this, you can really appreciate the gorgeous artwork. You need to have seen the movie (even better, have read the novel) for the story to make sense, but if you have, this picture book is amazing. I also enjoyed the introductions, where they talk about the choices they made in adapting the novel to the screen, and how to draw the rabbits (too naturalistic, and they'd vanish into the background; too cartoonish, and it wouldn't look right against the wonderfully naturalistic English countryside of the backgrounds; plus the difficulty of making each rabbit distinct --- after all, real rabbits look pretty much the same as each other to human eyes!) To be honest, I've looked at this picture book more often over the years (and my kids love it, too) than I've rewatched the actual movie --- the book captures the essence of the movie (except for the music/song!) and moves faster, heh.