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The Wind in the Willows: Classic Starts, Book 36 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Kenneth Grahame (Author), Martin Woodside (Author), Rebecca K. Reynolds (Narrator),

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Since 1903, the escapades of Mole, his friend Water Rat, shy Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall have delighted children, and adults, too. Follow the winning foursome through the seasons as they sail the river, get lost in the Wild Wood, take off on a merry adventure in Toad's colorful carriage, and rescue Toad Hall from a band of nasty marauding weasels.

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Listening Length	2 hours and 15 minutes
Author	Kenneth Grahame, Martin Woodside
Narrator	Rebecca K. Reynolds
Audible.com.au Release Date	22 September 2020
Publisher	Oasis Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08B388495
Best Sellers Rank	150,481 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 970 in Fiction Classics for Children 1,375 in Animals for Children 5,127 in Classic Literature

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Barbara McCosker

Four Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 19 April 2015

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My grand children like to have it read to them.

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Sea-Dogg

Would be nice with original pictures

Reviewed in Australia on 12 April 2014

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The illustrations of the 1920's editions lend so much more depth to this depiction of life in the Edwardian era and the tremendous changes as the result of the First World War

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Snowflake

Ageless Classic

Reviewed in Australia on 17 September 2014

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This is absolutely delightful no matter how many times you read it or how many years pass between each reading. A true classic for both young and old.

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Ros Hofmeyer

A journey back to the past.

Reviewed in Australia on 17 July 2014

Re-reading this story again more than 60 years after the first reading was, if anything, even more fun. One simply has to suspend disbelief and enter into this whimsical and endearing story about our familiar woodland creatures. One is never too old for a good story beautifully told.

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Aletheuon

Wonderful evocation of another era

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2014

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In this wonderfully nostalgic book, based on Kenneth Graham's own childhood, Mr Mole gets fed up with spring cleaning and takes a day off. He meets Mr Rat and is captivated by his lifestyle. He decides to move in with him and meets other fascinating characters - such as Mr Badger, Mr Toad and the otter, as well as the villainous weasels and stoats of the wild wood and their ruler, the Chief Weasel. There are really two books in one - the comic story of Toad and the beautiful story of Ratty and Mole's experiences on the river, the two stories converging when the creatures of the wild wood occupy Toad Hall and have to be ejected.
This is an absolutely wonderful book, beautifully written and completely absorbing. Like other great children's books, it tells the truth about the human condition better than any adult book could do. It makes you laugh and cry and also makes you think and feel in a new way. Marvellous!

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Michael Peter Ansell

CHILDHOOD STORY FINALLY READ!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 October 2019

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My 1st incantation of Wind in the Willows was in the early 1960's in the comic Harold Hare, an offshoot of Jack and Jill, called Here Comes Mr Toad. A very enjoyable story, which I have seen as a Disney cartoon and as a play at my local theatre Rickmansworth Watersmeet. So it was pleasure to come face to face with the book, the original and the best.

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Brings back many happy memories of childhood.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2012

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I remember having this book read to me at school and all the class were rapt and couldn't wait for every Friday afternoon for the next installment. The love of this book has grown as I have grown older and each time I read it, I find something new and more delightful in it. How I long to sit in Badgers comfortable home or watch the river go gliding past whilst at Ratty's house. Even Moles little home is charming with his little skittle alley. Toad Hall didn't impress me much as a child and still doesn't but who can't love the bumptious and rather silly Toad? He maybe rash and naughty but at heart he is a loveable chap.

This book simply doesn't date and the descriptions given of the river and the herbage and of the Wild Wood are superb. Probably my favourite chapter being Pagan, is The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'. Ratty and Mole are swept along without oars listening to music coming from they know not where until they find themselves on a little island and there they find a certain special someone plus the Otters son who has been missing for some time.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough for children and adults alike............it simply transports you to a quieter, nicer time and makes you feel all 'squishy' and happy inside.

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MR S MORNS

Pictures in words

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2019

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Timeless anthropomorphic classic in which Grahame uses language to skilfully paint a spellbinding, graphic story and sub-stories which draw the reader in to an Edwardian country world. Language is the author's palette and paintbrush and he wields them to great effect. I first read this book in my childhood and now again at 67 years and found his writing as enchanting now as I did then.

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C. R. Fairfax

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2013

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There aren't enough STARS to indicate my love of this book!
"The army all saluted
As they marched along the road.
Was it the King? Or Kitchener?
No. It was Mr. Toad.”
What better words to describe the endearing self-absorption of Mr. Toad. Perhaps, having seen the film of this book, one forgets the amazingly wonderful description of NATURE, the plants, the river, the woods, the animals, the scenery, the seasons & so forth minutely described by the author. And the film missed out the little otter protected by the god Pan altogether! Of course Edwardian mores entered the book too. The Class System was obvious. Ratty middle class, Toad upper & silly. Mole aspiring. The weasels & stoats definitely below the salt! Still, andere Länder, andere Sitten. Everyone should read — or have read — this book. My two most favourite books — read many times — are The Wind in the Willows & Clochemerle.

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