In May 1904, Kenneth and Elspeth Grahame were late to a dinner party because, according to a maid, Kenneth was “up in the night-nursery telling Master Mouse some ditty or another about a Toad.” Master ...
Kenneth Grahame’s richly textured children’s book, “The Wind in the Willows,” is two stories in one: a joyful, reverent celebration of life and a comic saga about madcap Toad’s obsession with ...