This is a weird book.It's a curious fusion of the country gentleanimal lifestyle, jaunty road movie, and elegiac paeans to life, humble or wild.It was very hard to me to work out how tall the animals were, or how Toad could be mistaken for a washerwoman, or what it means for a rat to be holding a...
An oldie moldie. But goodie. Ew... we have some really old books in our library. First published in 1898, "The Reluctant Dragon" shows how Kenneth Grahame was influenced by Victorian writers with voice. The humorous and stuffy narration reminds me of Lemony Snicket in his Series of Unfortunate Ev...