I had a lot of favourite books as a child.
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I had a full collection of Hardy Boy mysteries and Nancy Drew mysteries that I kept tucked away. Big Richard Scarry books. And then there was Wind in the Willows.
I remember Mole and Ratty and Mr. Toad and Mr. Badger quite well. I even watched the television series. Plus I read the sequels to the book. It’s probably this combined with a long held memory of watching the Star Trek reruns on CBC that helped bring out what I’m writing with the Swift Fox and Rocket Fox series. A friend of mine read the story I wrote and said “it’s like Wind in the Willows meets Star Trek”. That comment made me smile.
Wind in the Willows still holds a pretty high place for me.
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Craig Wetzel
January 19, 2012 at 8:27 am
Although the book which thrilled me the most was Huckleberry Finn, the Wind in the Willows was on my short list of special books and still is. I read it every year and it has lost nothing with age. I recommend the “Annotated Wind in the Willows” for serious devotees, which I have recently discovered are quite numerous.