Recommended Age:
10
+
Best for independent readers who enjoy immersive, character-driven adventure with world-building depth and emotionally resonant stakes, told from an unexpected perspective.
About the Book
After one rabbit has a disturbing vision of their home being destroyed, a small band of rabbits abandons their warren and embarks on a dangerous journey across the English countryside to find a safe new place to live — encountering predators, rival warrens with authoritarian social structures, and the constant threat of violence along the way. Despite being told entirely from the perspective of rabbits, the novel functions as a fully realized epic with its own mythology and culture.
Content Ratings
💡
Moderate Themes
Themes of displacement, loss, fear, authoritarian control, and mortality are woven throughout; requires moderate emotional engagement.
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Moderate Violence
Rabbit combat, predator attacks, warren destruction, and deaths of characters are depicted with emotional and physical consequence; not graphically gory but sustained and impactful.
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Genre:
Adventure
Published:
1972
Page Count:
413
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