redfiona99

Yes, I did pretty much spend Easter reading the classics.

I've known the story of The Wind In The Willows forever, one of those things that seeps in in the time before memory begins, but on the other hand I have no memory of ever having read the book.

And it is wonderful.

Warm and clever and lovely, and touched by some sort of magic.

It's all the little things like Mole feeling so much more at home in Badger's sett, because he's an underground animal at heart, but loving the river enough to forego that. And Ratty being lovely, and kind and ... Ratty is my favourite. And, it must be said, has been since I was wee.

Completely and utterly worth reading, no matter how old you are.

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Same series: The House at Pooh Corner, Now We are Six, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Willows at Christmas by William Horwood
Same series: The Willows in Winter, The Willows and Beyond, Toad Triumphant (Horwood's Wind in the Willows - pub. order)
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
Same series: The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet (The Psammead Trilogy)
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The River Bank and Other Stories by Kenneth Grahame
Same series: The Wind in the Willows - abridged, Wild Wood by Jan Needle, A Fresh Wind in the Willows by Dixon Scott (Wind in the Willows)

And I think the Unsuggester is slightly broken at the minute.