Literary Significance and Reception
Tales from Watership Down was generally rather poorly received by fans of Watership Down, many of whom had expected a longer and more conventional sequel. A reviewer for The New York Times wrote that while it was a "lighthearted companion piece" to Watership Down, it was "a little disjointed as a stand-alone volume." However, it was praised by another reviewer at Salon.com, who wrote that "The pure, unfamiliar feelings evoked in "The Story of the Three Cows" and in the gory "The Hole in the Sky" — just two of the stories here — persist for quite a while after you've finished reading them."
The collection is now out of print in Britain, although it is still sold in some other countries such as the United States.
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