The Wind in the Willows

This is a young classic novel and is written by Kenneth Grahame. The novel starts of in the fine weather of spring, in an underground house of a friendly Mole. He was cleaning his house and soon started to be tired. Therefore, he dug his way up to the warm Sun and he reached a river, which he has never seen before. While he was observing around he met a water rat, named Ratty. They soon became dear friends and they decided to have a picnic near the gentle river. After a while of eating, they met two good friends of Ratty, named Otter and Badger. Otter joined the picnic with them, but Badger did not – as he hated crowd or party. After the picnic, Ratty asked Mole to come and live in Ratty’s little house and Mole agreed. Later on, in summer, Mole asked Ratty to show another Ratty’s friend, named Toad. Despite the richness and friendliness of Toad, he was boastful and obsessed about things, but soon got tired of them. When they reached Toad Hall, Toad invited them to take a journey with him in his new horse-caravan. On the last day of the journey, they were crashed by a passing motor car. This made an end to Toad’s craziness about caravan and began a start an obsession for motor cars. Later in the winter, despite all the caution of Ratty about the Wild Wood, where their friend - Badger – lived, Mole went into the Wild Wood himself without any protections or preparations against Weasels, Stoats and Ferrets. Ratty soon found his friend had been naughty and not listened to his caution. Therefore, Ratty soon got off to the Wild Wood with a stick and a gun. He soon found Mole, who was hiding frightened in a hole. He then set of to Badger’s house, after having some sleeps. While their times at Badger’s house, these little animals decided that they should carry some punishments upon Toad, to persuade him to stop his craziness and obsession for things in the spring. After using words to persuade their boastful friend, Toad; they found that no words could make Toad to change his mind. Therefore, they started to use some ‘friendly’ actions upon Toad. However, Toad escaped and started an adventure, which he himself will never forget…

As this book is quite dull at some parts and it is recommended for kids from 5 – 9, I rate this book 2.5 out of 5!!!