‘A brilliant story-teller with a sense of humour that is as celebratory as it is caustic. His characters enthral 

the reader. The Dickens of the 20th century’—Mail on Sunday

‘Offers more entertainment per page than anything this side of Wodehouse’—Washington Post

When the Mole escapes from the tedium of spring cleaning and embarks on a new life on the River Bank with his friend the Water Rat, he has little idea of the adventures ahead of him. And the greatest adventures of all are concerned with the vainglorious Toad, who is thrown into transports of delight and finally prison by his love of fast motor cars. It is a hard battle indeed for his friends to teach Mr Toad even a little sense.

Kenneth Grahame"s tale of rural life has enchanted generations of children and adults since it was first published in 1908.