4/19/2023 0 Comments Wandering willows amazon![]() One of them was no less important a person than the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote: For this reason (or some other) The Wind in the Willows was not immediately the success which it should have been.Two people, however, became almost offensively its champions. It was natural that those critics who had saluted the earlier books as masterpieces should be upset by the author's temerity in writing a different sort of book natural that they should resent their inability to place the new book as more or less of a 'children's book' than those which had actually had children in them. The first two books had been about children such as only the grown-up could understand this one was about animals such as could be loved equally by young and old. ![]() ![]() "In 1908 he wrote The Wind in the Willows. Reading these delicately lovely visions of childhood, you might have wondered that he could be mixed up with anything so unlovely as a bank and it may be presumed that at the bank an equal surprise was felt that such a responsible official could be mixed up with beauty. In his spare time he was Secretary of the Bank of England. "To the moderately well-read person Kenneth Grahame is known as the author of two books written in the 1890s: The Golden Age and Dream Days. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh, one of our favorite children's books: ![]() We recently reread The Wind in the Willows and thought you would enjoy these wonderful introductions, one by President Theodore Roosevelt, and the second by A.A. Introductions by Theodore Roosevelt and A.A. Today's selection - from The Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Grahame. ![]()
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