The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

An Old Man's Book (277 words)
by - written on 17/11/01, updated on 20/11/01
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I, a reluctant grown-up, confess that my life has been enriched through my meeting of these four Edwardian animal bachelors. This is a classic that should be read TO or BY anyone YOUNG or OLD enough to have an imagination! Grahame created a wonderful pastoral world where the River-Bankers (consisting of Rat, Mole, Badger, and Otter) and their friends form a close-knit community of leisured landowners who observe an extremely strict code of responsible behaviour. Uh... then there's Toad. Toad, although he is one of the River-Bankers, continually distinguishes himself as one who is conceited and irresponsible, a spendthrift megalomaniac who disgraces his friends by even landing himself in ...

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

O My O My O My (1653 words)
by jillmurphy - written on 30/01/01, updated on 30/01/01 (Very useful, 178 readings)
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Hall be saved from the Weasels, Ferrets and Stoats from the Wild Wood? I’d better shut up now or I’ll tell you and spoil it all. Kenneth Grahame wrote The Wind in the Willows as a series of bedtime stories for his young son, nicknamed ‘Mouse’. It’s a little homily for children really – but it’s a homily so beautifully written that it compares favourably with much adult fiction. The descriptive passages are beautiful, evoking the countryside in all its seasonal glory and the antics of Mole and his friends are pure slapstick, especially those of that troublesome Toad. But one of Grahame’s most blessed talents has ...