Watership Down author Richard Adams dies aged 96 bbc.com

The author of Watership Down, Richard Adams, has died aged 96, his daughter says. The tear-jerking children's classic about a group of rabbits in search of a new home after the destruction of their warren was first published in 1972.

The tale, first told by Adams on a long car journey with his daughters, turned into a best-seller.
Adams, from Newbury in Berkshire, also wrote Shardik, The Plague Dogs and The Girl in a Swing.
Watership Down, which won the Carnegie Medal for children's fiction in the year of publication, was first adapted for screen in 1978.