It may be best for children who are adventurous readers and enjoy stories about the countryside. Honestly, I can't think of a book that's more fun to read aloud, in terms of language and character. For more than a century, Kenneth Grahames The Wind in the Willows has captivated children with the adventures of Mole, Rat, toad and Badger. It was quite an innocuous expression at the time, which is something you can easily explain to a child instead of having an attack of the vapors. A few more readings and the context will make the meanings perfectly clear.Īlso, good grief, 'silly ass' in a book published in 1908 isn't swearing. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy ending. The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses.

With the arrival of spring and fine weather outside. LibriVoxs Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame read by Adrian Praetzellis. There are plenty more words she likely doesn't completely grasp, but reading aloud allows the meaning to come through, and she's entirely able to keep up with the story. The Wind in the Willows is a childrens novel by Scottish novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908.

Granted, Grahame employed a degree of creative licence. Memorably, the Times Literary Supplement dismissed it as ‘nonsense of poor quality’ and ‘as a contribution to natural history negligible’. I'm reading it to a six-year-old with an unusually large vocabulary and still have to stop to define a word once a page or so, and it's fine. On publication 110 years ago, The Wind in the Willows Grahame’s only full-length fiction was met with lukewarm, even hostile reviews. The vocabulary isn't so much old-fashioned as advanced-Grahame writes with the complete certainty that his readers will figure it out as needed. What Is The Wind in the Willows book about The Wind in the Willows follows the characters Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad through some of their life in the Wild Wood. A remarkable, beautifully written classic story of friendship, feeling, and impulse control, with plentiful messing about in boats.

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