Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films.

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    The clever men at Oxford
    Know all that there is to be knowed.
    But they none of them know one half as much
    As intelligent Mr. Toad!
    Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)

    More than a thousand years it is since she
    Was beautiful: she trod the living grass;
    She saw the clouds.
    —James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

    All along the backwater,
    Through the rushes tall,
    Ducks are a-dabbling,
    Up tails all!
    —Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)