Wild Wood
by Jan Needle
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It's 1908 and times are hard. All very well for the leisured River Bankers with their hobbies, excursions and private incomes but young Baxter Ferret has to work long and hard to support his widowed mother and hungry siblings. Baxter is a ferret with a passion. He loves engines and when his employer buys the splendid Throgmorton Squeezer lorry Baxter willingly dedicates himself to its maintenance. That's until he meets the lunatic Mr Toad driving out of control on a dark night on the edge of show more the Wild Wood. show lessTags
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A lovely tale, even if you're not familiar with Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows (WITW). Needle weaves her tapestry with some threads from WITW, and it works quite well.
The same story that Kenneth Grahame told in The Wind in the Willows, but related from the point of view of the Wild Wood creatures, who were cast as villains by Grahame but appear here as a proletariat oppressed by uncaring bourgeoisie. Cleverly dovetailed with Grahame's 1907 original, but the politics are rather heavy-handed.
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Is a retelling of
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- Original publication date
- 1981
- Disambiguation notice
- There is ISBN confusion here because of publisher's accidental reuse of ISBN. Don't combine this one with Sandry’s Book by Tamora Pierce!
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Kids, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .N33 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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