and I drew it! Ok I traced Boxer, but I drew everything else and made an A! I was devastated to learn that it was not required reading in my Economics class that I taught during my first year in Hawaii. It blew my mind! We also had to do a project along with the reading and I chose to draw a picture of Boxer dragging rocks up to the windmill.

I remember that I was at a basketball game, but I tuned it all out and finished Animal Farm before the game ended. I was a little skeptical, but once I started reading, I was hooked. I was taking Economics and it was assigned reading. I was a senior in high school when I first read it. This is easily one of my all-time favorite books. This landmark illustrated edition of Orwell’s novel was first published alongside it, and features the original line drawings by the film’s animators, Joy Batchelor and John Halas. Halas & Batchelor studio’s classic and controversial 1954 animation of Animal Farm, George Orwell’s chilling fable of idealism betrayed, was the first ever British animated feature film. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Illustrated Edition published January 1, 2015Ī farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. Novel was originally published August 17, 1945

Animal farm illustrated