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The Wind in the Willows
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Although I vaguely remember Mole, Ratty, Toad, Mr Badger et al from my childhood, it was reading it to my child that brought it alive. They loved it and lived it � even more so after their first theatre trip to see it performed, aged a little less than three, which led to the unabridged version of the book.
Image: Ratty and Mole on the river (.)
We had many boating picnics (imaginary and for real), role-playing various characters, over several years, until The Hobbit and LotR took over (see my review HERE).
As an adult, I don’t much like the book itself (it's too dated, and the twee quasi homo subtext can grate), but I love Shepard’s illustrations and the memories of sharing it with my child.
Books that feed imagination are formative, whatever their flaws.
Image: Toad, ready to take the wheel of a motor car (.)
Image: Ratty and Mole on the river (.)
We had many boating picnics (imaginary and for real), role-playing various characters, over several years, until The Hobbit and LotR took over (see my review HERE).
As an adult, I don’t much like the book itself (it's too dated, and the twee quasi homo subtext can grate), but I love Shepard’s illustrations and the memories of sharing it with my child.
Books that feed imagination are formative, whatever their flaws.
Image: Toad, ready to take the wheel of a motor car (.)
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no more imaginary picnics?
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Jan-Maat wrote: "no more imaginary picnics?"Ha! Well, not acted out pretend ones. Nowadays it's for real or not at all.
Hope you had some onion sauce on those imaginary picnics!I loved this book as a child...didn’t think that much of it as an adult reading it to my son...kind of dull, I felt then. Probably I should give it another try as an old man and see what I think now.
Petergiaquinta wrote: "Hope you had some onion sauce on those imaginary picnics!..."Onion.... sauce?! On a picnic?! Nooooooo!
Petergiaquinta wrote: "I loved this book as a child...didn’t think that much of it as an adult reading it to my son...kind of dull, I felt then. Probably I should give it another try as an old man and see what I think now."
Good luck. I'm sometimes wary, lest something I loved falls in my estimation.
Just another batty Brit and his anthropomorphic animals?
Michael wrote: "Just another batty Brit and his anthropomorphic animals?"It's a long tradition here! 😉
(But not unique to us.)
