The Wind in the Willows
$31.89
- Paperback
72 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2012
Summary
This delightful stage adaptation combines all the joy and mystery of Kenneth Grahame’s much-loved classic with the lightness of touch and playful theatricality that award-winning playwright Mike Kenny is known for.
Tired of spring-cleaning, Mole leaves Mole End and ventures out to the riverbank, where he befriends the resourceful Ratty, the gruff Badger and the infamous Toad of Toad Hall (Poop-poop!). Together they explore the Wide World, and the Wild Wood, and try to keep Toad out o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848421486 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848421486 |
| Author: | Kenneth Grahame, Mike Kenny |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 93g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Taps into the novel’s prevailing mood of wistful nostalgia for a timeless, pastoral England.’
‘Mike Kenny’s script is funny, clever and pointed in its championing of riverbank life. It has a warm heart but is never twee’
* The Stage *‘Taps into the novel’s prevailing mood of wistful nostalgia for a timeless, pastoral England’
* Guardian *About The Author
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) is best known as the author of The Wind in the Willows, a novel based on stories he told his son Alastair at bedtime. It was first published in 1908, the year he retired from a career at the Bank of England, and won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.Mike Kenny is one of Britain’s leading children’s playwrights, and was included in the Independent on Sunday’s list of Top Ten Living UK Playwrights. His adaptation of E. Nesbit’s The Railway Children won an Oliver award for Best Entertainment and has toured worldwide.
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