Wind in the Willows
By (Author) Glyn Maxwell
By (author) Kenneth Grahame
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
10th July 2015
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Childrens, Teenage and Educational
822.9
Paperback
80
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
91g
Theres nothing absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as messing about in boats. A spot of spring cleaning on a sunny English riverbank so begins the adventures of four beloved friends. Follow Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger on their journey through riverside picnics, wild woods, jailbreaks, car chases and cross-dressing amphibians to save Toad Hall from disaster and get little Mole home. Will the foursome triumph And will everybody learn their lessons A delightful tale of camaraderie and joy. Poop poop! A new adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, a classic childrens novel notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the River Banks.
Glyn Maxwell has long been regarded as one of Britain's major poets. He has been awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Prize, and the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as being shortlisted three times for both the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Three of his books were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems was published last year. Many of his plays have been staged in London and New York. They include The Lifeblood, which was British Theatre Guide's Best Play on the Fringe at Edinburgh in 2004, Broken Journey and The Only Girl in the World (both Time Out Critics' Choices). Oberon Books publishes his Plays One (The Lifeblood, The Only Girl in the World and Wolfpit), Plays Two (Broken Journey, Best Man Speech and The Last Valentine), The Forever Waltz, Liberty, After Troy, Merlin and the Woods of Time and the libretti The Lion's Face and Seven Angels.