Richard Adams, author of the children’s classic Watership Down, died on Christmas Eve at the age of 96. Watership Down is a moving story about a group of rabbits who have to search for a new home after their warren is destroyed. It was first published in 1972, and won the Carnegie Medal. Adams wrote the book after telling the story to his daughters on a long car journey.

Watership Down was filmed in 1978, with Art Garfunkel singing the theme song ‘Bright Eyes’. A new television adaptation will be broadcast later this year.