The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

Insert illustration by Charles van Sandwyk

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie.
The Wind in the Willows was in its thirty-first printing when then-famous playwright, A. A. Milne, who loved it, adapted a part of it for stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. In 1908 Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Cookham, Berkshire, where he had been brought up and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do—namely, as one of the most famous phrases from the book says, "simply messing about in boats"—and wrote down the bed-time stories he had been telling his son Alistair.
 

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Main Characters of the Wind in the Willows

Mole 

Ratty 

Mr. Toad 

Mr. Badger 

Otter and Portly 

The Gaoler's Daughter 

The Chief Weasel 

Pan 

The Wayfarer 

Other animals: Weasels, Stoats, Ferrets, Foxes, Squirrels and rabbits