Magnificent full-color illustrations, created especially for this book, bring the well-known and beloved characters of The Wind in the Willows to life. The madcap adventures of Mr. Toad, Mole, Badger, and Rat are retold for younger readers in this carefully abridged volume. The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle.
