From the English children's classic by Kenneth Grahame. One day, Mole discovers the enchanting world of the river. He makes new friends: generous Water Rat, kindly Badger - and Toad, whose love of fast cars soon causes mayhem. With fun activities after the story, and online audio in both British English and American English.
This book is part of a book series called English Readers Level 2 .
. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.
There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .
Tom Jamieson is a principal joke writer for Private Eye magazine. He was also one of the head writers on the award-winning sketch series Dead Ringers, and has contributed to several radio and television programmes, including Have I Got News For You. This is Tom's first children's book. Olga Demidova studied at the Moscow Art Institute of Applied Arts, and worked as an animator. She is the illustrator of Peep Inside the Farm, part of the bestselling Peep Inside Usborne series. This is Olga's first picture book with Bloomsbury.
This book contains the following story:
The Wind in the Willows
Mole is spring cleaning his home when Ratty persuades him that there is nothing so much fun as messing about on boats. The two set off In Ratty's row boat and picnic by the riverside, then spend days in Ratty's riverside home. One day they decide to visit Toad at Toad Hall. Toad persuades the two of them to join him in his lovely yellow caravan. All goes well until the caravan is knocked into the road by a passing motor car. Days pass and Mole tries and fails to persuade Ratty to take him to meet the elusive Badger, so he sets off on his own and gets lost in the Wild Wood. Ratty rescues him and they stay the night at Badger's House. Meanwhile Toad has become so obscessed with cars he'borrows' one from a courtyard and end up in prison. The jailer's daughter takes pity on him and helps him to escape dressed in her washerwoman's clothes. However whilst Toad has been in prison, stoats and weasels have taken over Toad Hall and in a final battle Badger, Ratty , Mole and Toad must eject them and reinstate Toad.
