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The Wind in the Willows 姜鑫钰 周欢欢 石清清 康丽洁 Ⅰ.Introduction The writer of this novelKenneth Grahame , a British man who was born on 8 March 1859 in Edinburgh Scotland and died on 6 July 1932 in Pangboarne Berkshire, most famous for The Wind in the Willows in 1908.It’s one of the classic of children’s literatures. In his early childhood, his father began to drink heavily after his mother died and then he moved with his younger sister to live with his grandmother whose home is on the barks of the River Thames in the Berkshire village of Cookham in Southern England. He married Elspeth Thomson in 1899,but the marriage was not a happy one. They had only one child, a boy named Alastair whose nickname was “Mouse” born in blind in one eyes and plagued by health problems throughout his short life. He wrote this book and told these stories to his son before sleeping. He was rewarded by these stories and soon , he published this book in 1908.We choose this book because it not only bring some life stories of these animals for us but friendship and brotherliness between them. We also can feel a father’s love for his son at the same time. We can learn how to get along well with friends. Ⅱ.Summary of the Book This novel is divided into twelve parts.The river bank .The open road. .Mr. badger .Dulce Domum .Mr. toad .The piper at the gates of dawn .Toad’ s adventures .Wayfarers all .The further .Adventures of toad .Like summery tempests game his tear’s .The return of Ulysses. This story is so warm and sweet that people will be attracted by it. According to it, we can see that the writer is fond of the scenery in his hometown. This novel describes a postcard-pretty mountain village in Britain, just like the wind in the willows, so graceful and cool. The writer shows us the