Ayòbámi Adébáyò: ‘I read The Go-Between by LP Hartley and couldn’t stop crying’
Edinburgh fringe with the family: five shows for kids
December 2022
The Wind in the Wilton’s review – Mr Toad and pals take on weaselly property developers
Piers Torday’s update of the children’s classic brings Kenneth Grahame’s animals to modern-day London
November 2022
Recently discovered Wind in the Willows illustration to be sold at auction
The pencil and ink drawing of a swaggering Mr Toad and his friends by EH Shepard was found hanging on the stairs of an East Anglian country house
July 2021
The Wind in the Willows review – Grahame classic restaged as fable for our times
Lockdown loneliness, eco-crisis and land ownership are explored with varying degrees of subtlety in an uplifting show
June 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 books about the River Thames
From bucolic source to marshy lower reaches, London’s mighty river has inspired great writing
December 2018
The Wind in the Willows review – tales of the riverbank told with spirit and invention
In brief: Eternal Boy; Childhood; ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’ – reviews
October 2017
Books blog
Writing women into The Wind in the Willows revitalises the canon
Kij Johnson
Making imaginative room for another sex in this much-loved classic opened up its world to me
April 2017
The Little Library Café
Novel recipes: Potted beef from The Wind in the Willows
Warm weather means picnics, so Kate Young recreates a recipe enjoyed by Ratty and Mole in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s tale
February 2015
Top 10s
The top 10 books about rivers
The ‘amniotic’ pull of rivers fascinates Katharine Norbury, who shares her top 10 books of watery inspiration
March 2014
Top 10s
Top 10 books about intelligent animals
Karen Joy Fowler: From Watership Down to Animal Farm, here are 10 novels filled with anthropomorphic frailties and fantasies
December 2013
My hero
My hero: Mr Badger by Patrick Barkham
The welcome arrival of Kenneth Grahame's Mr Badger marked a turning point in human relations with the brave and elusive creature, writes Patrick Barkham
April 2012
Badgers' fate influenced by books, research discovers
Portrayals of badgers in literature from The Wind in the Willows to Beatrix Potter linked to UK's conflicted attitude to culling
February 2012
Mole and Rat meet the horned god Pan in British Library summer exhibition
Wind in the Willows – and forgotten chapter The Piper at the Gates of Dawn – in Cultural Olympiad exploration of landscape
July 2011
The 10 best ...
The 10 best literary picnics
In a boat, in the nude, with cold chicken, warm bananas, Mr Knightley or Mole…
January 2011
Top 10s
Cornelius Medvei's top 10 talking animals in literature
Children's books would be lost without animal characters, but the beastly perspective on human life has much to offer grown-ups, says Cornelius Medvei
March 2010
First edition of The Wind in the Willows sells for £32,400
An edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, dedicated to the daughter of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who was thought to have been the model for the character of Ratty, sold for 10 times more than expected
