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Trying to review The Wind in the Willows is a strange undertaking. In the introduction to my copy, A. A. Milne wrote: "One can argue over the merits of most books... one does not argue about The Wind in the Willows . The young man gives it to the girl with whom he is in love, and if she does not like Leggi tutto

So fun and whimsical!

Some of the best children’s classics have started with an adult inventing stories to tell to a child. “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, “Winnie the Pooh”, “Peter Pan” and even “Watership Down” all began this way, as did many others. The Wind in the Willows is another such. Like them, it is a novel Leggi tutto

This book is no plot, just vibes. If you're in the mood to just think about forest animals wearing tweed, and picnics in rowboats, and dinner parties attended by a bunch of rabbits and stuff à la the third act of Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox, and it's cool with you if that replaces story altogethe Leggi tutto

A delightful and entrancing story for children to wonder and adults to ponder! :) The protagonists, our incorrigible and exasperating toad, the loyal and responsible friends, the water rat and ever-gadding mole, and finally our revered badger. It's about the forest adventures of the comrades rat and Leggi tutto

Gentle British Bedtime Story Published in 1907, The Wind in the Willows is decidedly British literature. Before even getting to the exclamation of “Stuff and nonsense!", there is some mild swearing and sophisticated vocabulary for a children’s book. The book focuses on a cast of animals and their adve Leggi tutto

I feel like I have been in a bit of a reading slump lately. It is not that I am reading a whole lot less, I am just not REALLY enjoying the time that I am reading. It might be that the whole family is in back to school mode, so schedules have changed. Or, maybe just the general ups and downs of life Leggi tutto

This book was written in 1908, when the world was being shaken by the newly self-confident masses. Women were propagandising for the vote; the Irish were demanding Home Rule; the Trade Unions were showing their strength. Socialism theatened. A spectre was haunting Europe, and particularly England. W Leggi tutto