07/11/12… Thame charity bookshop celebrates 40 yrs of Watership Down

MESSAGE from Dick Jennens, the Manager of Thame’s Oxfam Bookshop: “WE LEFT TWO IN THE SHOP AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED! IN NOVEMBER 2012 WE WILL CELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF WATERSHIP DOWN.

“THE CLASSIC CHILDREN?S BOOK HAS NEVER BEEN OUT OF PRINT SINCE ITS FIRST PUBLICATION IN NOVEMBER 1972.

REJECTED BY ALMOST A DOZEN PUBLISHERS, REX COLLINGS LTD AGREED TO THE FIRST PUBLICATION.

THIS ICONIC BOOK WAS LATER PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS AND BECOME A BESTSELLER AND ONE OF THE ?BBC TOP ONE HUNDRED BOOKS?

The story featured as a film, TV series and was a chart hit for Art Garfunkal as a solo artist with ?Bright Eyes?

We left two copies of the book in the shop overnight, and now we have enough to mount a window display to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first publication.

Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Strawberry and Kehaar are waiting to meet a new audience”

May El-ahrairah be with you.”

Celebrate 40 years of Watership Down and buy a copy to reread this November.