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...
El viento en los sauces, sin duda unos de los clásicos de la literatura infantil universal, nos presenta el pequeño universo en el que unos personajes entrañables - el fiel Topo, la inteligente Rata de Agua, el enloquecido Sapo y el sensato Tejón nos ofrecen una exacta metáfora sobre los usos y ...
A children's classic comes to life in an enchanting dramatization narratedby Alan Bennett. Enter the world of the great river and meet the marvelousriverbank animals: the poetic Rat, his friend Mole, and the boastful Toad, asthey voyage down the river and into the Wild Wood to great adventures! T...
First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below...