"He pushed on towards the Wild Wood, which lay before him low and threatening, like a black reef in some still southern sea. There was nothing to alarm him at first entry. Twigs crackled under his feet, logs tripped him, funguses on stumps resembled caricatures, and startled him for the moment by their likeness to something familiar and far away; but that was all fun, and exciting. It led him on, and he penetrated to where the light was less, and trees crouched nearer and nearer, and holes made ugly mouths at him on either side.... Then the faces began."
- Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows"
🎨 Angel Dominquez

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"Oh, Mole! The beauty of it! The merry bubble and joy, the thin, clear, happy call of the distant piping! The call in it is stronger even than the music is sweet! Row on, Mole, row! For the music and the call must be for us."
- Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows"
🎨 Troy Howell

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"When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an armchair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time."
- Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows"
🎨 Ernest H. Shepard

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« The Reluctant Dragon », 1983

by Michael Hague (American children's books illustrator, born 1948)
cover Illustration for "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame, Henry Holt & Co, 1983

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"The country lay bare and entirely leafless around him.... He had never seen so far and so intimately into the insides of things as on that winter day when Nature was deep in her annual slumber and seemed to have kicked the clothes off."
- Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows"
🎨 Inga Moore

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"Some eight or ten little fieldmice stood in a semicircle.... As the door opened, one of the elder ones that carried the lantern was just saying, 'Now then, one, two, three!' and forthwith their shrill little voices uprose on the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed in fields that were fallow and held by frost, or when snow-bound in chimney corners, and handed down to be sung in the miry street to lamp-lit windows at Yule-time."
- Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows"
🎨 Ernest H. Shepard

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Calling all those who signed up to The Storybook Sock Box - The Wind in the Willows - it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'The Wind in the Willows' - a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist sock yarn along with a contrasting 25g mini skein perfect for heels, toes and cuffs.

Included in the box is a copy of the book, a postcard, a sticker and a bookmark.

Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!

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