Watership Down Author Writes The Egg-Box Dragon
Bestselling author of Watership Down, Richard Adams has written a new picture book according to the Independent Newspaper today. Watership Down is one of the most iconic novels from the last hundred years, and as Adams turns 95, readers could be forgiven for thinking his writing career over. However, today it’s been announced that he has written The Egg-Box Dragon, inspired by one of his daughters’ school craft project.
In the author’s own words “The Egg-box Dragon was my children’s creation, really. It was someone’s idea to make a dragon. The whole class used to amuse themselves by thinking up more and more ideas about Egg-box Dragon; how his tail was made; how his ears were made; what sort of stories he liked, and so on. I took it up and developed it, writing further stories about him.”.
The Egg-Box Dragon has been sent to Juliet Mabey, editorial director at Oneworld, the publishers behind the illustrated version of Watership Down, and now all we can do is watch and wait.
As we all know, it’s often the illustrators who make picture books so special and as such, the publisher will want a great illustrator on board if this goes to print. One thing is for sure, with Richard Adams’ name on the cover, it’s likely to sell well!
Watership Down was published back in 1972 while Adams was working as a civil servant and went on to win the Carnegie and the Guardian Children’s Book Prize. It’s not the author’s only works though as he went on to write several novels including The Plague Dogs and The Girl in the Swing.
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