Mole's Christmas, or, Home sweet home: From The wind in the willows
by Kenneth Grahame, Beverley Gooding (Illustrator)
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Mole rediscovers the joys of home and with the help of Rattie entertains the Mousekin carolers and brings Christmas cheer to all.Tags
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This is a full version of the chapter Dulce Domum, and Gooding does an exceptional job illustrating the story. Her characters are actual size compared to their world, instead of child sized, which most illustrators have done. This itself makes her renditions more interesting, but beyond that her pictures have a richness of color and detail not often found in the cheaper versions of this book. I'll be looking for the rest of the set done by her. They are worth having.
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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 show more 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) show less
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- Beverley Gooding's Mole's Christmas is a full text version of the chapter Dulce Domum.
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