A year and several months ago, just before I started this blog, J and I watched the animated movie as well as some of the t.v. series that came later (German versions available on YouTube), and for several days J was all about it, playing Watership Down-themed games and drawing the characters.
He was strangely fascinated with the figure of Captain Holly, a rather sketchy and scarred old campaigner who goes over to the good rabbits.
I recorded him saying at the time: "Ich mag Hauptmann Holly so gern, weil er den anderen Kaninchen berichtet, was in der Heimat passiert ist, damit die das wissen."
The story may be a little too advanced for J at this point, we'll see. But I do think that in his own bunny story, in which the bunnies have a mythology, he was recalling Watership Down. Obviously most of the language-play in the original is not going to come over in translation, but the German seems very good.
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