The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame: That wasn't the wind, that was Toad! (997 words)
by shroud - written on 09.06.08 (Very useful, 69 readings)
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Ah....childhood memories. This book brings back so many fond memories of rainy afternoons and even a read along at school. It all came rushing back as I sat down to go through my daughter's curriculum guide for next term and saw The Wind in the Willows was on her Year 2 syllabus .I almost envy her. This will be her first meeting with the creatures who live along the river in a romanticised pastoral England that never quite was. Astonishingly, this book almost never quite was the highly regarded and well known book it is today. Kenneth Grahame was a banker for the bank of England, and after publishing a few stories, here and there, that went greatly unnoted, ...

An Old Man's Book (276 words)
by - written on 17.11.01
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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 ...

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame: O My O My O My (1648 words)
by jillmurphy - written on 29.01.01 (Very useful, 172 readings)
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Oops, I’ve been doing it again – sorting out my books. It’s a bad move you know because the books never seem to get sorted out at all – they just get read. I’m just getting into the swing of a nice, tidy order – A-Z by author or grouped by subject matter – and it happens. I have to stop. I pick up a book you see that just has to be read - and read AT ONCE. So, I’m sorry to say, like everything else in my house my books are in rather a mess. They’re in no ‘proper’ order – they’re higgledy-piggledy you might say. I quite like it actually – sshh don’t tell anyone, ...