The Wind in the Willows - 90th anniversary gift edition: With original artwork, by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator, E. H. Shepard

I’ve read this twice now, and some of it multiple times. The passage where Ratty and Mole find their way out of the snowy night and into Badger’s kitchen is a favorite. I love to read it when I’m feeling down. It’s quite a pick me up.The book has its odd moments. Somehow it never seems to quite coalesce, but that may be for the good. It feels more like a strange and powerful meditation peppered with Willowy notions of a kind of odd masculine-feminine perfection of feeling. It’s more a book to curl up with, than a pressing what-happens-next story.And yet you must read it all. Froggy’s imprisonment and escape are certainly full speed ahead drama, as much so as Mole’s home-sickness is not, even if it is still quite compelling. And the Return of Ulysses while it may be classically delightful, does seem to raise vigilantism to an impossibly over the top spectacle.But there is a moment I used to remember as the end of the book, but it occurs before the halfway mark. In it Ratty hears and feels a calling from beyond as they search for a missing child on a strange island. It’s a moment that had me utterly spellbound.That this book somehow achieves moments of such believable magic, even in one so skeptical as myself, is why it has always seemed to me to be amongst the most plaintively human of children’s novels, if, indeed, it is proper to limit its appeal to children, or that narrow and often ridiculous term “the child in all of us”. I say instead, it is for the human in all of us.

Never read the book before but glad I bought it, a lovely story.

je l’ai acheter vu les suggestion sur internet disant que c’est un bon livre pour commencer a apprendre l’anglais mais a chaque phrase que je lis il y a toujours des mot difficile est la plupart ne sont pas present dans le petit dictionnaire , je recommande pas en tous cas

Excellent quality print. A classic to be read by young and old. Timeless.

This is an enjoyable, entertaining and light-hearted read for children. I remember it from my own childhood. Bought as a gift for some children.