The Wind in the Willows: Illustrated Edition (Union Square Kids Illustrated Classics)

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In Downton Abbey, series 2, episode 2, the Dowager Countess learns that her granddaughter, Lady Edith Crowley, has volunteered to drive a tractor for a local farmer during the war, to which the Dowager Countess says, "You're a lady. Not Toad of Toad Hall!" [36]

Wind whispered in the Scottish willows first". The Scotsman. 16 April 2005 . Retrieved 26 February 2013. Inga Moore's edition, abridged and illustrated by her, is arranged so that a featured line of the text also serves as a caption to a picture. Later in the article, Dirda exclaims "Really, what could be more…middle-aged?...While The Wind in the Willows certainly has the appearance of a children’s book, this masterpiece nonetheless tends to be most deeply affecting to those past forty." Ratty’s clothing changes from one panel to the next. In Dulce Domum, he goes from rolled up shirt sleeves and white porkpie hat to no hat, to sweater and visored green hat, all on the same walk. Come to that, Ratty is the most changeable. The skinny long limbed hay-seed Rat predominates, but occasionally there is a more compact mouse-like Rat.With the arrival of spring and fine weather outside, the good-natured Mole loses patience with spring cleaning, exclaiming, Hang spring cleaning! He leaves behind his underground home and comes up at the bank of the river, which he has never seen before. Here he meets Rat, a water vole, who takes Mole for a ride in his rowing boat. They get along well and spend many more days boating, with "Ratty" teaching Mole the ways of the river, with the two friends living together in Ratty's riverside home. I'm dissatisfied with her renderings. They are quite stylized, with profile heads crowding most of the pictures, and very little action indicated.

The most popular illustrations are probably by E. H. Shepard, originally published in 1931, and believed to be authorised as Grahame was pleased with the initial sketches, although he did not live to see the completed work. [5] The characters are portrayed adequately and appropriately; but some of the pictures suffer from a muddiness caused by too many dark watercolor strokes.I'm sure I've seen her work before, as she was very prolific, illustrating her own books and for authors like Rumer Godden. But the beauty of her work really hits you when you google-search images. Creative and poetic! And then you look at her author picture and just completly melt.