For my second round pick, I decided to go with a classic of Children's Literature,
Watership Down by Richard Adams.
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Watership Down began as a story that Richard Adams told to his two children, Juliet and Rosamund, on a long car journey; in an interview, Adams said that he "began telling the story of the rabbits ... improvised off the top of my head, as we were driving along."He based the struggles of the animals in the story on the struggles he and his friends encountered during the Battle of Oosterbeek, Arnhem Holland in 1944. His children insisted that he write it down—"they were very, very persistent"—and though he initially delayed, he eventually began writing in the evenings, completing it eighteen months later. The book is dedicated to both daughters.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down
http://www.amazon.ca/Watership-Down-.../dp/0140306013
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