302 pp. Frontispiece by W. Graham Robertson. The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Scottish novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternatingly slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals: Mole, Rat (a European water vole), Toad, and Badger. They live in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley. Grahame was good friends with the author of Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne, who adapted portions of this work into the stage play Toad of Toad Hall.
