ALMA CLASSICS NEW BOOK INFORMATION CHILDREN’S LIST The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

SELLING POINTS:

• New edition of one of the greatest children’s classics of English literature

• Beautifully packaged

• Includes extra material for young readers

SERIES: Alma Classics / DESCRIPTION: Children Depicting the adventures of Rat, Mole, Badger and the pretentious Mr Toad, The Wind April 21st 2017 • £6.99 in the Willows sees these four animals getting into all sorts of trouble as they wander 978-1-84749-638-6 along the river, through the Wild Wood and around the grand Toad Hall. 192 pp • PB Subject: YFA Adapted for the stage by A.A. Milne as Toad of Toad Hall, and recreated for film Age Range: 9–11 and TV numerous times, Kenneth Grahame’s tale has been an essential part of every English child’s formative reading for over a century, with new generations of readers succumbing to its charm, wit and wonder.

“A book that we all greatly loved and admired and read aloud or alone, over and over and over.” Christopher Robin Milne

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A British writer most famous for The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) worked at the Bank of England before retiring due to ill health. Grahame also wrote The Reluctant Dragon – which, like The Wind in the Willows, was adapted as a Disney film.

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