Kenneth grahame

Kenneth Grahame was a daydreamer, inventing in his mind ‘golden realms… golden lagoons and parrot-haunted jungles’. He liked doodling pictures of boats and birds and listening to the sound of water

LITTLE GUERRILLA | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by E. H. Shepard

Kenneth Grahame, British author of The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the English classics of children’s literature. Its animal characters—such as Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad—combine captivating human traits with authentic animal habits. Learn more about Grahame’s life and career.

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Mole’s Christmas, or, Home Sweet Home (from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. (1984). Illustrations by Beverley Gooding

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Golden Age, by Kenneth Grahame

Read II. THE OPEN ROAD of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. The text begins: 'Ratty,' said the Mole suddenly, one bright summer morning, 'if you please, I want to ask you a favour.' The Rat was sitting on the river bank, singing a little song. He had just composed it himself, so he was very taken up with it, and would not pay proper attention to Mole or anything else. Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks…

Badgers Kitchen ~ Wind in the Willows