“I think for Dad, that was just the beginnings,” she said of his oral storytelling.
He would tell them the stories at bedtime and on car trips, embellishing as he went. Popular with both children and adults, it has since sold millions of copies and was made into a film, with a remake scheduled for next year.Īdams dreamed up the elements of “Watership Down” while working as a civil servant and regaling Juliet and her sister, Rosamond, with stories about rabbits. “He died of what used to be called old age,” she said.Īdams’ lyrical and poignant novel about the plight of rabbits whose home was under threat became an astonishing success after it was published. Juliet Johnson said Tuesday that Adams died in Oxfordshire, England, on Christmas Eve. LONDON - British author Richard Adams, whose 1972 book “Watership Down” became a classic of children’s literature, has died, according to his daughter.
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