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Week 38 - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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I loved this book too - all the characters, especially the naughty Mr Toad!
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He made me laugh so much!!!
It was a pretty good book. I read it this year and it was my first time too. :-)
I love this book, too. I vaguely remember a tv series or film I enjoyed as well.
Like Amber, I read this first as an adult. I listened to it as an audiobook, and found it a lot of fun.
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Me too!
Amber recommended this book to me a short while ago. I absolutely loved it! Mr. Toad made me laugh out loud several times! I gave it 5-stars and wrote a review:-https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have had a copy of this book sitting on my Children's Literature shelves for years now. I remember loving the movie when I was younger. My sister and I would watch it over and over again. As to reading it, alas, I have not. YET.
An absolutely wonderful book; I knew the story from my youth and thought I may have read it, though it was one of those classics where I couldn't tell if I'd read it or knew it solely from cultural knowledge and the film/tv adaptations. When I did read it a year or two back It entirely surpassed my expectations and was an utter delight to read.
Paulfozz wrote: "An absolutely wonderful book; I knew the story from my youth and thought I may have read it, though it was one of those classics where I couldn't tell if I'd read it or knew it solely from cultural..."I don't think I have read this, nor do I own a copy. I shall add this to my wishlist and will definitely get around to reading it at some point!
Well I hope you enjoy it Shirley!
from the article:
The Wind in the Willows began as bedtime stories and letters addressed to Grahame's troubled son, a sickly boy known as "Mouse" who possibly inspired the wilful character of Mr Toad and who eventually committed suicide, aged 20, while at Oxford. Indeed, so personal were these stories that Grahame never intended to publish his material. The manuscript was first given to an American publisher, who rejected it. After the publication of The Wind in the Willows by Methuen in 1908, it found an unlikely transatlantic fan in US president Theodore Roosevelt who, in 1909, wrote to Grahame to tell him that he had "read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends". Elsewhere, the critical response was more mixed, and it was not until AA Milne adapted parts of the book into a popular stage version, Toad of Toad Hall, in 1929, that it became established as the evergreen children's classic it is known as today.
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