Tag: The Wind in the Willows

• What Were Your Favourite Childhood Books?

  Can you name at least one book that you read as a child (ie 11 or under) that still exists in your memory as a perfect story?  That was the challenge issued to me by my friend Phillipa Ashley (a prize-winning novelist – you’ll find her at http://phillipa-ashley.com/) way back in June 2010 when I’d only just…

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  April 14, 2012

  AA Milne, Alison Uttley, Children’s Books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kidnapped, Kipling, Malcolm Saville, Mark Twain, Mervyn Peake, Oliver Twist, Pollyana, The Hobbit, The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island

• Carols and Mulled Ale

  For Day Three of the Advent Bookfest I couldn’t resist the carol singing field-mice in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. Ratty and Mole are returning to River Bank after Badger has rescued them from the Wild Wood, when Mole hears his old home calling him, so they head there instead. They hear scuffling…

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  December 3, 2011

  carol singing, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kenneth Grahame, mulled ale, The Wind in the Willows