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Well the guessing is over. The new Centenary Edition of The Wind in the Willows is now announced on the website. How long will we be able to resist? I just listened to this interesting BBC R4 programme about Kenneth Grahame (no touchstone for him), author of The Wind in the Willows and The Reluctant Dragon...
Tuesday 30 September 2008 11:30-12:00 (Radio 4 FM)
A hundred years after the publication of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in ... I just listened to this interesting R4 programme about Kenneth Grahame (no touchstone for him), author of The Wind in the Willows and The Reluctant Dragon...
A hundred years after the publication of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, John O'Farrell returns to the Berkshire ... Hubby & I reread The Wind in the Willows to each other a few years back and still loved it. I tried to read Narnia books a while ago and I just couldn't stand it. Loved them as a kid, now, blech.
I also enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time, The Phantom Tollbooth & the Edward Eager magic books when I ... ... Babies as well, because that was one, believe it or not, that I couldn't handle as a kid. It terrified me! Hehe. Same as The Wind in the Willows - who knows why they were so scary, but they really were.
eta - fixing words ... usiads
Gulliver's Travels
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Jungle Book
Divine Comedy
Pilgrim's Progress
Wind in the Willows
Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wind in the Willows, and Myths and Enchantment Tales, a kid's book on Greek mythology. My mother went back to college when I was a little kid. She bought me the mythology book when she was taking a required mythology class. I read it, loved it, and then read her textbook, which I still have. ... ... Heart by Laura Kinsale
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Hunting Wind by Steve Hamilton
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame ... in White, as it's a book I've not yet read and planned to purchase anyways.
I also purchased Slaughterhouse-Five, The Wind in the Willows and The Invisible Man in order to get the free mystery book. They were each at a good price and I intended to buy them at some point as well, so I ... ... 4 year old son
-Down the Back of the Chair by Margaret Mahy, for our 1 year old
-Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
-The Wind in the willows by Kenneth Grahame
And I came home to find The Year of Magical Thinking and Nuns and Soldiers in the mailbox, mooched from another LTer.
Ju ... ... #3 - A signed copy of the book described in kirstgym's post above could be the basis for our expected Centennial Edition of The Wind in the Willows. With only a little more than four months left in 2008, we should know fairly soon. ... tember.
Scrapbook of Christmas Firsts. I am co-author with 5 writer friends.
I love to read mysteries and will check out In the Wind. Ooops, In the Wind in brackets yields The Wind in the Willows, as someone here said earlier.
Terra ... through the whole book, but never, ever read a word. Nor will I ever read that book."
I have to say, you missed out. The Wind in the Willows is a lot less childish than a lot of adaptations have made out. Kenneth Grahame has a quite mature writing style, and there's one chapter in ... ... were on the top couple of rows).
My parents only ever interfered once with my reading and that was forcing me to read Wind in the Willows. I sat in the living room and turned the pages through the whole book, but never, ever read a word. Nor will I ever read that book.
They both had ... ... a note here that I'm doing one of the Author Chats here starting tomorrow. (I had a new mystery published a few months ago, In the Wind.) It would be great to hear from fellow librarians over yonder (http://www.librarything.com/groups/authorchat).
BTW, I wonder if the "odd things found in ... ... of etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, etc.) by artist just can't justify those kind of prices --to me. The standard Folio Wind in the Willows is quite special as is. ... beyond the projected publication date. We'll just have to wait and see what is involved with this Centenniel Edition of The Wind in the Willows that could possibly justify such an abnormally high price. ... read the texts etc. (There's a lot of them, very cool, I'm going to read them all - including Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Wind in the Willows, Howl's Moving Castle and various picture books). But, the Potter bit was cute - more on dear old Peter Rabbit tomorrow.
And as for the confusing ... Yes, barely:
The Wind in the Willows
A Walk in the woods
No, mostly :(
Behind the Attic Wall
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
A Night in the Lonesome October
The Dark is Rising
Howl's Moving Castle
House of Leaves
Re #5: The recent Limited Editions survey that some of us recently participated in listed a "Centennial Edition" of The Wind in the Willows as a proposed limited edition for the upcoming membership year. The price was very expensive, 700.00 - 800.00 USD, if I recall correctly.
I certainly hope ... ... ths
A Passage to India
Travels with My Aunt
The Towers of Trebizond
A Voyage Around The Coast of Great Britian
The Wind In The Willows
Mystery Book
The Great Fire of London in 1666
The War of the Worlds
The Invisible Man
It is a good thing I am single, my wife would ... I don't remember the first short book I read by myself, but I distinctly remember my very first chapter book - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. I was so proud of myself. There was this whole new world of books available, even ones without pictures (!) and I was so excited.
Still ... ... that clearly belong together, yet are different. (The problem with tags is that if someone were to incorrectly tag, e.g. The Wind in the Willows as "SF Masterwork" there'd be no way to get it off the tag page without their cooperation.)
There are a couple potential functional improvements ... I succumbed to Dr. Zhivago and Wind in the Willows. Just couldn't help myself...well, I did help myself, but the credit card isn't happy. The Wind in the Willows is most assuredly a triumph, solely on the strength of Charles van Sandwyk's magnificent illustrations. Re 43: I heartily concur that The Wind in the Willows needs listing on the "Triumphs" thread.
Although I had read positive remarks about this edition from our group in different threads here, I hadn't seen any illustrations from The Wind in the Willows until just recently and then ... The Secret Garden is very nice, but the Folio The Wind in the Willows is a masterpiece--one of the Society's unqualified triumphs. ... including shipping. I ordered The Blind Watchmaker, The Lost Continent, The Great Gatsby and The Last Tycoon and The Wind in the Willows. I have been wanting to read Watchmaker, I love Bill Bryson, have been wanting to re-read Gatsby and have always wanted a good edition of Wind in ... The Wind in the Willows
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Charlotte's Web - maybe?
Watership Down although I hate to recommend it....
But aside from the talking animals, no magic in any of those that I recall.
... is still a bit much for your sister, I think you'll enjoy it quite a bit anyway. It's great stuff.
And there's always The Wind in the Willows. ... the departure of the Elves. And I've often wished I could take on animal form and be one of Ratty and Badger's friends in The Wind in the Willows.
If we could be granted magical powers, we'd all love to live in the Harry Potter universe -- but as wizards and witches, not as muggles. I'd LOV ... Fire Sale by Sara Paretsky
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Windy City Blues by Sara Paretsky
Firestarter by Stephen King
The Day the Earth Stood Still by Arthur Tofte Oh my goodness, I forgot Wind in the Willows! My mother read that to me as a young child. I was amazed ( and gratified) to see the series that got me started mentioned here. For me as a young child is was also The Wind in the Willows followed by all of the Wizard of Oz books and from there its been fantasy all the way. Apparently, Burgess was writing after Grahame (who was born in Scotland and raised in England):
The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Mr. Toad and Danny Meadow Mouse Take a Walk (1914)
Old Mr. Toad Gets His Stomach Full (1914)
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad (1916)
Buster ... Mr. Toad was a character in The Wind in the Willows, but I believe Kenneth Grahame was British. I'd be interested in knowing if Burgess was writing before of after Grahame. Downward to the Earth
The Dying Earth
The Illearth War
The Urth of the New Sun
A Wizard of Earthsea
Children of the Wind
The Other Wind
A Wind in the Door
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Gone with the Wind
Bears Discover Fire
The Wandering Fire
Fire on the Mountai ... ... Next Time James Baldwin
Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne
The Whole Earth Catalog Howard Rheingold
Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
Western Wind John Frederick Nims 100 years for Wind in the Willows! ... instilled a love of reading in me - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island and, from the early 20th century, The Wind in the Willows were early favourites read to me as bedtime stories.
I detest Jane Austen, which I know is not a popular stance. I don't envy Mr. Rossetti for ... Did I add A Wizard of Earthsea and Wind in the Willows yet? I know I've read them...
I notice no one had a JK Rowling book come up randomly when the did this. cat was close, but hers is Harry Potter and Philosophy, so no cigar. She shouldn't smoke anyway. Especially cigars. Ick.
Question: ... ... I'll maybe find out this weekend how she organizes, I'm dog-sitting.
My current random books:
GoF
Storm of Swords
The Wind in the Willows
God, the Devil, and Harry Potter
1st to Die
Da Vinci Code
the Island by Victoria Hislop Favorite children's books: The Hobbit, The Secret Garden, The Wind in the Willows, Ballet Shoes and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. All oldies but goodies! ... so that may have been why it took so long and I hated it so much) it was just so dry and I hated the characters. Then The wind in the Willows I couldn't even finish it was so boring. ... Blood by Truman Capote
8-Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
9-How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman
10-Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
11-Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
12-Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
13-Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
1 ... ...
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
(Lots of wonky touchstones) I read a lot of children's literature. Three of my favorites are:
1. Wind in the Willows
2. Charlotte's Web
3. Stuart Little
I did not live in a bookish home and our school was rural and had a very bad library. Strangely, I came to children's literature mostly when I became older ... How about The Wind in the Willows? I find it comforting. I can't seem to move anywhere beyond an advert for the Wind in the Willows - perhaps it's a glitch that will be fixed before long. The Wind in the Willows
Night in Funland
The Painted Bed
Stone for an Eye
Myths and Legends of China
Plant Dreaming Deep
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked ... would do. Swiss Family Robinson is a wonderful story and read aloud. Farmer Boy, Cricket in Times Square, and Wind in the Willows. Oh, and what about James and the Giant Peach? Lawyer and famed collector of musical scores James J. Fuld died on January 29 at the age of 91. He was the author of The Book of World-Famous Music.
Writer on Eastern European affairs Abraham Brumberg died January 26 at the age of 81. His memoir was Journeys Through Vanishing Worlds ... ... as you mostly enjoyed the Eyre affair. They don't get any more literery but are still quite fun.
Watership down and Wind in the willows as more delightful children's ish tales of english life.
Non-fiction wise maybe The Omnivore's Dilemma: which I haven't actually read, but is ... ... Birthday Book of American Poets which has a copyright date of 1881.
Books I have had the longest - probably Wind in the Willows from the 1960s or maybe Secret Garden also received in the 1960s. I love that picture chamekke. Makes me think of Wind in the Willows.
Seanie - sooooo cuuuute! How can you resist? You could sneak it in and call it a big mouse? ... spiritual musings.
Both are blandly enjoyable thusfar. Still working my way through no fewer than four other books (Wind in the Willows, Things Fall Apart, Complete Short Stories of Graham Greene, and Bee Thousand), not to mention catching up on back issues of Sun, NY Times Book ... Wow, no one's mentioned Wind in the Willows yet? Okay, I'm going for 50 books again this year. First up:
Classics
1. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
I never read this book as a child, but I've seen the Disney cartoon about Mr. Toad. It was nice to be able to meet all the characters in their original work. The prose and ... ... read in my youth) and still have pride of place on my bookoshelves today - I have gorgeous hardback illustrated editions of The Wind in the Willows, Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland that I read over and over again, and still occasionally reread now - there are no loose pages and ... ... or upsetting. Any book that whisks me as far away from my world as possible is good. Ones that do it for me include The Wind in the Willows, any Agatha Christie mystery and oddly enough books like Moby Dick and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell ... Touchstoners?
Anyway, I'm trying to finish all of the above by next week so as to begin my annual Yuletide re-reading of Wind in the Willows. ... Manners Saves Civilization
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Fifth Mountain by Paulho Coelho
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk ... For me I was interested in fantasy-style writing after the magical children's book The Wind in the Willows (not mentioned!!) - and to a lesser degree, The Chronicles of Narnia.
After that I started enjoying the early Dragonlance novels by Weis and Hickman - which still have a soft spot ... ... books where the artwork competes with the book itself, e.g., The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Edmund Dulac, or The Wind In The Willows illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Heck, I'd buy anything illustrated by Dulac or Rackham. Maybe I'm contradicting my first sentence. Oh well - ... ... it is then you need fforde's works to cheer you up. Start with The eyre affair.
Or go down the children's route. Wind in the Willows is literature. And cheerful. and celebrates how great a picknick by the river can be. katylit: I'm also a huge fan of the coloured fairy books (although they can be hard to find at times) and the Wind in the willows has always been one of my fav's. as have Lewis Carroll's works. Glad to know I'm in such good literary reading company. ... as Red Storm Rising.
Or you can try plenty of children's classics which for some reason aren't described as fantasy - Wind in the Willows being an ideal read. I love that he loved the coloured fairy books by Andrew Lang! I love those books myself and that just tickles me. And Wind in the Willows too. Very cool list! Thanks for telling us JPB, very much appreciated :-D Yeah, it's great to see Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows on the list. These are wonderful classics and some of my all-time favourites :) ... I remember it fondly. I also loved the Borrowers books and the Little House books, Fattypuffs and Thinifers, and The Wind in the Willows. More children's classics on LibriVox (but entertaining for young-at-heart, too :)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - excellent
There are several versions of this book on LibriVox, but by far the best is the one by Adrian Praetzellis (solo reader, British accent. Does a brilliant 'Toa ... ... at university and then children's services in library school! The ones that stand out:
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graeme
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Mole, The Wind in the Willows. ... by Betty Smith
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Walden; Or, Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau
A Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Lord of the Rings, Little House on the Prarie, The Wind in the Willows, Narnia, Harry Potter, and so many of Anne McCaffrey's books (especially Pern with The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern handy with accompanying recipes). To me, a book is really good if it's got some good ... The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Little Book of Hugs by Kathleen Keating
Chocolate: The Consuming Passion by Sandra Boynton
Mr Tickle by Roger Hargreaves
Skoob Directory of Secondhand Bookshops in the British Isles
Oh, yes, of course - The Wind in the Willows!
It's probably necessary making a separate list for books you loved when you were a child/YA, but I read Grahame's book shockingly late. ... : the bible and literature and his Blake study is very good.
Also, I couldn't do without the OED.
And , I loved the Wind in the Willows as a kid. ...
The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks by Robertson Davies
Northrop Frye literary criticisms;
Jeeves by Wodehouse;
Wind in the Willows by Grahame;
Sherlock Holmes;
The Oxford English Dictionary
I would have happily included any of Jane Austen's works, the Iliad, the Brontes, ... ... and Scottish heroes;
Tom Swift series by Appleton;
The Secret Garden
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stephenson
Wind in the Willows
I think I'd better stop, this could get long.
... Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
The Rising of the Moon by Gladys Mitchell
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Visions from San Francisco Bay by Czeslaw Milosz #116--that's how I felt when reading Wind in the Willows to my children--the magic was still there and somehow even more so because I knew what was coming and relished my kids' reactions when we came to the exciting parts. ... makes "Fear" my very favorite section of my thesaurus.)
Love in the Time of Cholera (philophobia AND cholerophobia)
The Wind in the Willows (ancraophobia AND dendrophobia)
A Room of One's Own (koinoniphobia AND eremophobia)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (gynephobia AND ... Rule42, wearing dark reflective shades, a box haircut, and a double-breasted Loriano silk suit, stood on the sidewalk, furtively looking up and down the street as though he were a Secret Service agent. When he saw Amanda approaching the front door he looked at her from behind his traffic-cop ... I didn't read The Wind in the Willows until I was an adult (I can't imagine why not -- I read EVERYTHING as a child) and I think I missed out. Somehow, reading it in my twenties, it just wasn't magic for me the way I think it might have been when I was younger. ... week: Axel's Castle and the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry and The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Oh, and The Wind in the Willows is here, too (smile). ... solid.)
Currently only one book of the 15 on the "People who have your books also have...." for the two is the same (The Wind in the Willows). Tellingly, the first book listed for The Annotated Alice is The Annotated Wizard of Oz (also annotated by Gardner, with a comparable ratio of ... OK, another book (should appeal to the vulgar fraction):
The wind in the willows by Kenneth Grahame
Daisy Miller, Pandora and Other Stories by Henry James
Farewell Leicester Square by Betty Miller
The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
History of the thirteen by HonorĂ ... >84 A bit of a guess, here, but it seems to fit: is it The Wind in the Willows?
(I was distracted by trying to do all sorts of clever things with Pitt and Tara and dowsing, but the simple solution looks a lot more plausible...) ... Development with Ant
apes - 150 - Planet of the Apes
asp - 198 - ASP in a Nutshell, 2nd edition
badger - 150 - The Wind in the Willows
bat - 30 - Bat Loves the Night
bear - 1913 - Corduroy
beaver - 21 - Benny the Beaver
bee - 456 - The Secret Live of Bees
beetles - 73 - ... ... Bee, and John R. Tunis's various baseball books, too.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Kenneth Grahame and The Wind in the Willows, but maybe that was better suited for teenagers than for younger kids. Did you know they closed "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" at Disneyland forever ... ... young lady of the most fastidious manners should appreciate lovingly-prepared food. And there's Ratty and Mole's picnic in Wind in the Willows - probably the first description that made my mouth water.
More recently, and slightly (but not much) more anchored in the real world, Victoria Clayt ... ... few chapters. I haven't tried it in a few years, so I'm hoping I can read it this summer. Never could make it through Wind in the Willows either, though I really wanted to because the animals were so cute.
As for books that terrified me, the Goosebumps series scared me so much that my ... The Copper Beech by Binchy
Cold Sassy Tree by Burns
The Wind in the Willows by Grahame
Snow Falling on Cedars by Guterson
The Egg Tree by Milhous
Fear in the Forest by Leeuw
Explore a Tropical Forest
A Wonderbook and Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne
In the Lake of the Woods ... The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Chasing the Monsoon by Alexander Frater
The Weather Prophet by Lucretia Stewart
Storm Track by Margaret Maron
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
... Souls" may be the perfect prayer for a child, by a father who has fallen short.
On the lighter side, I re-read Wind in the Willows every so often. I find something new every time I read it. I starts out with Martha (mole) busy cleaning house until she is drawn by the calling of God ... ... of Lord Peter Wimsey's nephew, Lord St. George.
/random fact.
That said, I do like the descriptions of food in The Wind in the Willows but particularly the feast Ratty gathers up at Mole's forsaken home that one night :) ... they had not been championed by adult admirers, they would have been unlikely to have the enduring appeal of, for example, The Wind in the Willows.
I was just wondering what people thought of this. I first read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when I was about six, and I did enjoy it -- ... The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame was my first ever pagan book. My first ever book about witchcraft was Natural Magic by Doreen Valiente, which I still possess.
The Wind in the Willows still inspires me - yes. I re-read it whenever I feel myself getting caught up in ritual ... ... by Graham Greene -- beautifully, satisfyingly sad.
The Great Gatsby, The Old Man and the Sea
Recently reread The Wind in the Willows -- particularly enjoyed Chapter 7 ("The Piper at the Gates of Dawn") describing the spir |
