Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahamewas a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows, one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films, which are The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Reluctant Dragon...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth8 March 1859
morning swimming rivers
Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads suddenly, as ducks will, he would dive down and tickle their necks, just under where their chins would be if ducks had chins, till they were forced to come to the surface again in a hurry, spluttering and angry and shaking their feathers at him, for it is impossible to say quite all you feel when your head is under water.
sea fishing rivers
The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having...
rivers knowing water
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!
ahead dream pleasant saw toad understood
Toad saw that he was trapped. They understood him, they saw through him, they had got ahead of him. His pleasant dream was shattered.
animals bother liked past settled themselves took
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.
animals boat flowery hesitation margin passed solemn tumultuous
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
clever half men none
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
air alongside began coming excitement grow stood summoned
When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.
call early glad time wrong
It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!
clever half men mr none
The clever men at Oxford,Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, As intelligent Mr Toad.
sunshine simple long
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.
travel somewhere-else world
Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!
tea buns world
Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
funny clever humor
The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.