Kenneth Grahame

Mole was happy with his life until one day, in the middle of spring cleaning, he emerges from his hole at Mole End and starts meandering the English countryside. Everything is new for the simple but stalwart mole. Never before had he seen a river, taken a boat ride, or encountered the woods.


But this is nothing compared to what awaits him when he gets tangled up in the escapades of the indomitable Mr. Toad, the society-hating Badger...

Looking back to those days of old, ere the gate shut behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest were aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind may be allowed. They treated us, indeed, with kindness enough as to the needs of the flesh, but after that with indifference (an indifference, as I recognise, the result of a certain stupidity),

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"Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), Dream Days was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head. (The first six selections in the book had been previously published in periodicals of the day-in the Yellow Book, the New Review, and in...

In this illustrated, abridged version of the original, the boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and, especially, St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern?

Tradition says that dragons come in many shapes and sizes but they all breathe fire, whisk fierce, scaly tails and frighten local villagers. Whenever they can, they capture princesses and take them to their caves. But this is not always the case. In these four stories, the authors introduce some very different kinds of dragons. One, for example, just wants to sit quietly in his cave and write poetry and really doesn't want to fight St. George; in...

A story about the escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. Presented in Swahili.

The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.

A beginning reader tale inspired by Kenneth Grahame's beloved characters finds Mole scraping up the courage to leave his underground home and make a new friend in Water Rat, who composes an ongoing poem.

When young Toady's nanny brings her son, Badger, with her to work at Toad Hall, Toady, not wanting to share the mansion or lose his status as "the only special someone" there, treats Badger very badly.

In this retelling, Toad is not a bad guy, it's just that he really loves cars and whenever he finds out how fast a car can go, Toad tends to end up in big trouble. Written in graphic-novel format.