The Wind in the Willows – 90th anniversary gift edition: With original artwork, by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator, E. H. Shepard

This is a great book to have to hand. The illustrations are excellent. Suitable for adults and children

My daughter like to read books, so I bought this book for her on her birthday, she is so happy to read it, and attracted by the story, when she finished, she also told us about the book, the story, which make so proud to buy this book for her.

I've been on the lookout for an edition of Wind in the Willows with the E H Shepherd illustrations for a while and this Egmont edition with full colour illustrations right the way through the book certainly didn't disappoint. Although I wasn't massively keen on the bright green cover, the paper quality, type and above all the illustrations are just wonderful. Highly recommended.

Wind in the willows is a classic book Ihave enjoyed rereading it after many years

I read this to my 7 year old grandson and he loved it. However, what I read was edited:• I left out Chapters 5 & 7, which seem to me pretentious fillings out, unconnected to the central story;• I used alternatives for lots of words few 7 year old (maybe some adults) will know. In just a few pages I can spot examples that I substituted: “habiliments”, “oratory”, “sculls”, “paroxysms”, “mullion”, “incorrigible”, “halberds”. I could go on, but any child reading this book by themselves will need a dictionary (or electronic equivalent).A modern child may also need some explanation of why a barge might need a horse, a train coal, or a house a “smoking room”.

I first met Wind in the Willows when I was 10: I enjoyed it then, and have enjoyed it ever since. I now have four copies in three editions - all very well worn. I cannot recommend this book too highly, the adults as much as to children.

Lovely little special edition book.Made a lovely 30th birthday gift.Memories from her childhood

Lovely illustrations in this wonderful timeless story; a beautiful book to have and treasure to pass down the generations.Purchased for myself to read to Grandchildren and enjoy ourselves.

I’ve read this twice now, and some of it multiple times. The passage where Ratty and Mole find their way out of the snowy night and into Badger’s kitchen is a favorite. I love to read it when I’m feeling down. It’s quite a pick me up.The book has its odd moments. Somehow it never seems to quite coalesce, but that may be for the good. It feels more like a strange and powerful meditation peppered with Willowy notions of a kind of odd masculine-feminine perfection of feeling. It’s more a book to curl up with, than a pressing what-happens-next story.And yet you must read it all. Froggy’s imprisonment and escape are certainly full speed ahead drama, as much so as Mole’s home-sickness is not, even if it is still quite compelling. And the Return of Ulysses while it may be classically delightful, does seem to raise vigilantism to an impossibly over the top spectacle.But there is a moment I used to remember as the end of the book, but it occurs before the halfway mark. In it Ratty hears and feels a calling from beyond as they search for a missing child on a strange island. It’s a moment that had me utterly spellbound.That this book somehow achieves moments of such believable magic, even in one so skeptical as myself, is why it has always seemed to me to be amongst the most plaintively human of children’s novels, if, indeed, it is proper to limit its appeal to children, or that narrow and often ridiculous term “the child in all of us”. I say instead, it is for the human in all of us.

Descubrí este clásico de la literatura inglesa hace poco, a través de unas reseñas. Describe la vida y la naturaleza desde el punto de vista de unos animales del bosque. El texto tiene gran calidad literaria, incluso un nivel de lengua elevado, y esta edición es preciosa, llena de ilustraciones a color, grandes y pequeñas. Esta es la versión tapa dura, muy cuidada en los detalles (en inglés). Una obra para desconectar del mundo y conectar con la naturaleza. Muy recomendable.

Excellent quality print. A classic to be read by young and old. Timeless.

Lovely story with beautiful illustrations by EH Shepard (more famous for winnie the pooh).

Niestety piękna, wartościowa książka i piękne rysunki Sheparda zostały przyćmione przez fatalny dobór czcionki. Czcionka jest zbyt mała, aby umożliwić komfortowe czytanie. W załączeniu zdjęcia przedstawiające dwie wersje wydania. Książka w białej okładce zostaje z nami, a tą w zielonej okładce, którą kupiłam dla syna niestety zwracamy, gdyż ani syn ani ja nie chcemy się męczyć z tak małą czcionką.