The Wind in the Willows: Illustrated Edition (Union Square Kids Illustrated Classics)

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The Narnia books are in the latter category. I just can't, as an adult, find the magic in them. I'm quite certain it would have been there when I was a kid. Maybe I'll try them again in a few years and at least find Half Magic in them! Belknap Press, a division of Harvard University Press, published Seth Lerer's annotated edition in 2009. [6] I have only two complaints. Ratty is too dapper in a white linen suit and two toned shoes. (But you’ve heard that one already before.) And Mole is drawn just a bit too dark and rough. He looks more fierce than a cute little mole actually does. Michel Plessix created a Wind in the Willows watercolour comic album series, which helped to introduce the stories to France. They have been translated into English by Cinebook Ltd.

Eight episodes from 4 to 14April 1955, BBC Home Service. With Richard Goolden, Frank Duncan, Olaf Pooley, and Mary O'Farrell. Dixon Scott's A Fresh Wind in the Willows, illustrated by Jonathon Coudrille, was published by Heinemann/Quixote in England in 1983 and Dell Yearling in the United States in 1987.Chapter headings get pen & ink sketches which don't add much, but the color pictures are wonderful! There are twelve of them, which should give us one for each chapter, but that's not how it works out. Mole End is in the Arts and Crafts style, with beams, woodwork, lighting, furniture, fireplaces all conforming, but with tree roots also winding about walls and ceilings, ocassionally being used architecturally - as a stair rail, for instance. The 1927 edition illustrated by Wyndham Payne was noted for its use of a distinctive colour of yellow, described by some cultural commentators as canary yellow. Public Domain https://www.illustrationhistory.org/illustrations/rip-van-winkle Additional Resources With the arrival of spring and fine weather outside, the good-natured Mole loses patience with spring cleaning, exclaiming, Hang spring cleaning! He leaves behind his underground home and comes up at the bank of the river, which he has never seen before. Here he meets Rat, a water vole, who takes Mole for a ride in his rowing boat. They get along well and spend many more days boating, with "Ratty" teaching Mole the ways of the river, with the two friends living together in Ratty's riverside home.

The Alcuin Society did an interview with CVS about his thoughts in preparing for and illustrating the book: http://www.alcuinsociety.com/amphora/143/Sandwyk.html

I combined that with the habit of making up my own rat, mole, badger stories whenever we were driving any distance, and those had the kind of action in them that kept the car-seat trapped toddlers engaged. Now that they're teenagers, and have never read WITW themselves, I suspect they have memories of WITW stories that aren't even in the book.