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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    There is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
    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)

    The world has held great Heroes,
    As history books have showed;
    But never a name to go down to fame
    Compared with that of Toad!
    —Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)