The Hoard Potato hears the Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

[athelind]

As Salon reminded me this morning, 2008 marks the 100th Anniversary of The Wind in the Willows. This is not merely a classic of children's literature; it is, quite possibly, the furriest book of all time.

Read it online, or pick up a copy for the holidays -- it's public domain, so you can find any number of inexpensive editions.

I first read it at the age of 38, and found that, despite being undeniably a book about Youth, it also has much to say to Adulthood and Middle Age.

Comments

[stalbon.livejournal.com]

As much as I would consider it one of the classics, I somewhat relate more to Jacques' Redwall series, or even more so, to Watership Down, one of my all-time favorites. Buuuut, that's just me. And frankly, Jacques just keeps repeating himself with each progressive novel in that series.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

The comments on the nature of the deity in the chapter "Piper at the gates of Dawn" are very apt.
Forget...forget....

[athelind.livejournal.com]

...I can never remember what happens in that chapter.

badum-ching.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

It all pans out OK....

[odiedragon.livejournal.com]

We bought a comic book adaptation of Wind in the Willows for R for Christmas. She's at least two years behind in her reading level, but she really gravitates to comic books. So we bought her a bunch of graphic novels for Christmas (including the very-furry Mouse Guard)

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite novels. I need to dig it out of the closet and read it again.