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The Wind in the Willows is a classic of childrens literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie.

The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 childrens story by Kenneth Grahame (originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days), which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions. The story has also been set to music as a childrens operetta by John Rutter, with words by David Grant. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St George did fight a dragon). It is Grahames most famous short story. It is arguably much more well-known than Dream Days itself or the related The Golden Age. It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat.In Grahames story, a young boy discovers an erudite, mushroom-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk, who send for St George to rid them of it.

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) This is the story of four friends Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger. Rat loves the river. Mole is often afraid. Badger likes to stay at home. But Toad is always looking for new adventures and some of his ideas are dangerous

Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of childrens literature.This ebook contains the following works:The Golden AgeDream DaysThe Reluctant DragonThe Wind in the Willows

Questo racconto ha incantato intere generazioni di lettori, bambini e adulti. Questa edizione, adattata e illustrata da Inga Moore, trasmette la magia delle incredibili avventure degli animali che abitano sulle rive del fiume, un microcosmo dagli orizzonti limitati ma che sa creare l'atmosfera di ampio respiro dei grandi libri. Lo spirito e il leggero umorismo anglosassone sanno catturare lettori senza confini e barriere di lingua. Eta di lettura: da 9 anni.

With the arrival of spring and fine weather outside, the good-natured Mole loses patience with spring cleaning. He has fled his underground home, emerging to take in the air and ends up at the river, which he has never seen before. Here he meets Rat, who at this time of year spends all his days in, on and close by the river. Rat takes Mole for a ride in his rowing boat. One summer day, Rat and Mole disembark near the grand Toad Hall and pay a visit to Toad. The beautiful childrens novel by Scottish novelist Kenneth Grahame.

Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of childrens literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon. Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milnes Toad of Toad Hall was the first. The Disney films The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Reluctant Dragon are other adaptations.

"The Wind in the Willows" is a novel written by Scottish author Kenneth Grahame first published in 1908. Originally based on bedtime stories Grahame told his son, this novel soon grew into a beloved childrens classic. The childrens story uses the adventures of four anthropomorphic animals Mole, Rat, Badger, Toad, and their friends, to teach young readers larger lessons about morality.When the novel begins, Mole is at home doing spring cleaning, and he is quite bored with it. He casts down his cleaning instruments and runs to the surface to plow through rabbits along the roads and through grasses in the meadows to the river. It is at the river that Mole meets Rat, and the two form an immediate friendship. This friendship brings Rats friends Badger, Otter, and Toad into the story.The novel continues to follow the animals on their adventures and misadventures. Toad, a well-to-do heir, goes through innumerable fads such as his interest in motor-cars. However, when he steals a car, it is his undoing, He is arrested and sentenced to jail. He escapes from jail disguised as a washer-woman. Meanwhile, the other animals must deal with the bad reputations they have for being Toads friend.Toads home is taken over by menacing animals from the Wild Woods, and the four friends rally together to save the house. With the Wild Wooders driven away, Toad turns over a new leaf and becomes a respectable aristocrat. He is loved and admired by many. He deepens his friendship with Mole, Rat, and Badger; and, the four often take long walks and live well thereafter.

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said Bother! and O blow! and also Hang spring-cleaning! and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gavelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air.