Annal:1973 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
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Results of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in the year 1973.
For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1973 Guardian Award winner
- 1972 Carnegie winner
- 1975 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- Score: 26.23
One of the most beloved novels of our time, Richard Adams’s Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage, leadership and survival; an epic tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile community…and their trials and triumphs in the face of extraordinary adversity as they pursue a glorious dream called “home.”
Watership Down is a remarkable tale of exile and…
