Watership Down features the music and animation in the style of the movies. In the American TV show "Robot Chicken", a parody of the book is done with the Fraggles, the main characters of the show "Fraggle Rock", in place of the rabbits. The November 1974 issue of "National Lampoon" magazine, released shortly after the resignation and pardon of President Richard Nixon, featured a satirical parody of the novel entitled "Watergate Down", in which rabbits are replaced by rats, described as animals with "the morals of a Democrat and the ethics of a Republican." Watership Down Watership Down is a survival and
Silverwing (novel) Silverwing (novel) Silverwing is a best-selling children's novel, written by Kenneth Oppel, first published in 1997 by HarperCollins. It tells the story of a colony of silverwing bats. The tone and artistic ambition of this series of bestsellers has been compared to the classic animal novel "Watership Down". "Silverwing" is the first installment of the Silverwing series, though it is chronologically the second novel in the sequence after "Darkwing". Shade is a young Silverwing bat whose father disappeared before he was born. He lives with his mother Ariel and is bullied by other newborns, especially Chinook and his friends, for