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This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on fo...

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Main Author: Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Pook Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Toads > Juvenile fiction.
Rats > Juvenile fiction.
Moles (Animals) > Juvenile fiction.
Badgers > Juvenile fiction.
Rivers > Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels > Juvenile fiction.
Forests and forestry > Juvenile fiction.
Landscapes > Juvenile fiction.
Disguise > Juvenile fiction.
Ethics > Juvenile fiction.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder > Juvenile fiction.
Self-destructive behavior > Juvenile fiction.
Otters > Juvenile fiction.
Escapes > Juvenile fiction.
Thieves > Juvenile fiction.
Weasels > Juvenile fiction.
Dwellings > Juvenile fiction.
Lost articles > Juvenile fiction.
England > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the English Thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality and unceasing camaraderie. This text contains an introduction by A. A. Milne, the famed author of 'Whinnie the Pooh' and various other Children's poems. It is also accompanied by a series of dazzling colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). One of the most celebrated painters of the British Golden Age of Illustration, which encompassed the years from 1900 until the start of the first world war, Rackham's artistry still delights both young and old over a century later. Presented alongside the text, his illustrations further refine Grahame's masterful storytelling.
Physical Description:xv, 190 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN:1473319412
9781473319417
Author Notes:Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh on March 3, 1859. When he was five years old, his mother died of scarlet fever and he nearly died himself, of the same disease. His father became an alcoholic and sent the children to Berkshire to live with relatives. They were later reunited with their father, but after a failed year, the children never heard from him again. Sometime later, one of his brothers died at the age of fifteen. He attended St. Edward's School as a child and intended to go on to Oxford University, but his relatives wanted him to go into banking.

He worked in his uncle's office, in Westminster, for two years then went to work at the Bank of England as a clerk in 1879. He spent nearly thirty years there and became the Secretary of the Bank at the age of thirty-nine. He retired from the bank right before The Wind in the Willows was published in 1908.

He wrote essays on topics that included smoking, walking and idleness. Many of the essays were published as the book Pagan Papers (1893) and the five orphan characters featured in the papers were developed into the books The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898). The Wind in the Willows (1908) was based on bedtime stories and letters to his son and it is where the characters Rat, Badger, Mole and Toad were created. In 1930, Milne's stage version was brought to another audience in Toad of Toad Hall. Grahame died on July 6, 1932.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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