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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame · 1908

ages 8 to 12chapter bookread aloud

Mole abandons his spring cleaning mid-scrub, shouts "Bother!" and "O blow!", and bolts up into the sunshine, and Grahame's long, rolling sentences carry that same restless energy right through the book. It rewards being read aloud over many nights rather than raced through, which suits a chapter a bedtime nicely.

Chapters

A long one: read it a chapter a night.

  1. THE RIVER BANK
  2. THE OPEN ROAD
  3. THE WILD WOOD
  4. IV
  5. DULCE DOMUM
  6. _CAROL_
  7. VI
  8. THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
  9. TOAD'S ADVENTURES
  10. WAYFARERS ALL
  11. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD
  12. XI
  13. THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
  14. TOAD'S LAST LITTLE SONG

Public domain. Source text via Project Gutenberg, PG boilerplate removed. View the source edition

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