
This classic of the English countryside first published in 1908 is a favourite with readers of all ages As the late Margery Fisher wrote ' Adults are sadly aware of the figure of Grahame himself languishing in a city office & longing for the river children respond to the fun the anarchy of Toad & the entrancing detail as Grahame's son Alastair must have done when he listened to the bedside stories that became a book ' The author invited Arthur Rackham to illustrate his book but Rackham said he was too busy
- a decision he was happily able to reconsider in 1936 when he was approached by the American publisher of the Limited Editions Club The project which he carried out with love & great care for the authenticity of detail was his last the drawings appeared first in the USA in 1939 & in Britian in 1950