Well, now I've read this last book of the Wind in the Willows series and feel a nice, cozy sense of closure-except the library didn't have Toad Triumphant. Funny thing is, yesterday I found it in the vintage children's books section of Half-Price Books! (Hardcover, with dust jacket, can I get a "Woo-HOo!"?) Anyway, this book takes our dear friends all the way to the peaceful end and yet one feels the stories might continue, because their families do. One big surprise about 3/4 of the way through had me in tears (of happiness) and feeling rather sorry for myself that I wasn't some creature of the river bank myself. Sigh, none of Horwoods's books are 100% as wonderful as Kenneth Grahame's original, but they are darn near it I think. Definately worth reading.