The Wind and the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad’s craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle.
From Jim Dwyer:
It’s not just a cute animal story like the watered-down Disney version, which disappointed me terribly. … It is also a commentary about the destruction of the British countryside by industrialization, especially by the railroads that in many ways prefigures Richard Adams’ It’s not just a cute animal story like the watered-down Disney version, which disappointed me terribly. … It is also a commentary about the destruction of the British countryside by industrialization, especially by the railroads that in many ways prefigures Richard Adams’ Watership Down written over 60 years later. written over 60 years later.
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ISBN-10: 0140621229
ISBN-13: 9780140621228
Goodreads: 269784
Author(s): Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 9/29/1994
The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle.