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'Wind in the Willows' is a classic that speaks about all it has to offer on its own pages. Anything else one really wants to know is contained in the introductory essay by Brian Jacques. Many of the most helpful annotations placed alongside of the text only reinforce those points.

In this edition the text is often almost hidden in the annotations and those annotations are often far from being scholarship. (I don't count looking up common English words in the OED as scholarship.) Nor will Annie Gauger's laborious search for homosexuality or for parallels with Homeric tales ('The Odyssey')or the too frequent 'reading in' of class distinctions add much to the enjoyment of this book. I suspect that very few purchasers of this edition will spend much time poring over the Appendices containing Grahame's letters to his son to seek out the origins of some of the final text in 'Wind in the Willows.' Should you miss them, the high points are also included as annotations with the text. Still, making these resources available has to count for something in terms of annotations and critical editions. The material on Alastair Grahame's 'Merry Thought' has its own charm but does not add to our understanding of the book. Nor does the biographical reality that Alastair later committed suicide bear in any way on the composition of 'Wind in the Willows.' It does add a poignancy that is outside of the content of the story.

Annie Gauger's edition is very strong on bringing together in one place the finest of the illustrations from most of the previous editions of the work. I am particularly grateful to her for including the ones by Nancy Barnhart, Paul Bransom and Arthur Rackham. They were often printed in full color and they are presented that way in this edition. These are marvelous gifts to carry forward and it is much to the credit of the publisher that they are included here.

With such a book there is a choice to be made: to purchase a copy in whatever format of one of the extant editions that features the text in an easily followed form or to go with this and have the copious annotations get somewhat in the way when the reader would like very much to stay caught up in the story and its atmosphere.


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The Wind in the Willows Penguin Classics Kenneth Grahame Gillian Avery Books Reviews

With Robert Ingpen's illustrated edition, The Wind in the Willows is now given a beautiful makeover. I have read several different editions of Wind in the Willows to my children. Each one is gloriously beautiful, but I do adore Ingpen's color and his detail. Fans of Ingpen know his work on such books as Treasure Island.

First off, Wind in the Willows is a beautifully written tale, as many others here have already told. So well written, it is, that some people believe it shouldn't be illustated at all. However, as an artist, I am not in that camp. I appreciate a person willing to render 2D or 3D life to the written word. What a task!

This is a book which one can pick it up and put it down as one wishes. We sometimes read our favorite bits over and over. Grahame's writing is perfection, and we voice his characters for fun sometimes. There's a silly claymation television series that was done in the 1980s if you want to show the kids the t.v. version after you've read it to them. It was available on Netflix - not sure if it still is.

Also, for 'purists', fyi, this is the book in its unabridged form (the original full length tale).

For those looking for the abridged version, with lovely illustrations, check out the version with Inga Moore as illustrator. Moore has illustrated a version of The Secret Garden which is also lovely.
I first had this story read to me before I could actually read the thing to myself and since that time I have probably read this particular book/story a couple of dozen times. Each reading reveals more hidden “word treasures” and I enjoy it as much now that I am as old as dirt as I did when I was a young grasshopper.

One thing about it; as you get older, and hopefully wiser, you discover observations of human nature in the pages of this book that are often times overlooked by the young reader. As an old man I can now read this book and picture in my mind individuals I have known and met throughout my life that are living parallels to the characters in this book...good grief, I can even find myself if I am dead honest with myself!

This one is considered a classic and for good reason. I suspect that it will remain so for years and years to come. Some stories are simply timeless.
The story is great, and the Wordsworth Children's edition offers a complete, unabridged version with original photos - one per chapter. And there's the rub. There are now slightly abridged editions with wonderful illustrations, and full versions with more pictures, which is what small children often enjoy most about reading. I was upset that the reviews for all editions of the book were clumped together, so I couldn't tell which book people actually liked best, unless they pointed it out. As a final note, I've got a degree in literature, and I appreciated the original text. I've since seen the slightly abridged and fully illustrated Candlewick Illustrated Classics version, and would so much have preferred that one, if I had known.
This edition is called "The Classic Edition" and Kenneth Graham is the author. However, beware, this is not the long edition that I have read several times before. This is a shortened edition. I did not realize when I purchased it that "Classic Edition" was not the full version. The illustrations are beautiful, and the story is fine, but the shortened length deprives the reader of the detailed delights in the full version.
'Wind in the Willows' is a classic that speaks about all it has to offer on its own pages. Anything else one really wants to know is contained in the introductory essay by Brian Jacques. Many of the most helpful annotations placed alongside of the text only reinforce those points.

In this edition the text is often almost hidden in the annotations and those annotations are often far from being scholarship. (I don't count looking up common English words in the OED as scholarship.) Nor will Annie Gauger's laborious search for homosexuality or for parallels with Homeric tales ('The Odyssey')or the too frequent 'reading in' of class distinctions add much to the enjoyment of this book. I suspect that very few purchasers of this edition will spend much time poring over the Appendices containing Grahame's letters to his son to seek out the origins of some of the final text in 'Wind in the Willows.' Should you miss them, the high points are also included as annotations with the text. Still, making these resources available has to count for something in terms of annotations and critical editions. The material on Alastair Grahame's 'Merry Thought' has its own charm but does not add to our understanding of the book. Nor does the biographical reality that Alastair later committed suicide bear in any way on the composition of 'Wind in the Willows.' It does add a poignancy that is outside of the content of the story.

Annie Gauger's edition is very strong on bringing together in one place the finest of the illustrations from most of the previous editions of the work. I am particularly grateful to her for including the ones by Nancy Barnhart, Paul Bransom and Arthur Rackham. They were often printed in full color and they are presented that way in this edition. These are marvelous gifts to carry forward and it is much to the credit of the publisher that they are included here.

With such a book there is a choice to be made to purchase a copy in whatever format of one of the extant editions that features the text in an easily followed form or to go with this and have the copious annotations get somewhat in the way when the reader would like very much to stay caught up in the story and its atmosphere.