FOR FURTHER READING

Selected Works by Kenneth Grahame

Pagan Papers. London: E. Mathews and John Lane, 1893.

The Golden Age. London: John Lane, 1895.

Dream Days. London and New York: John Lane, 1898.

“Preface.” The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916.

The Reluctant Dragon. New York: Holiday House, 1938.

My Dearest Mouse: “The Wind in the Willows” Letters. London: Pavilion with the Bodleian Library, 1988. Introduction by David Gooderson. Facsimiles and transcriptions of Grahame’s letters to his son, Alastair, from May through September 1907; the letters contain a fragment of chapter 6 and most of chapters 8, 10, 11, and 12, dealing with Toad’s adventures.

Biographies

Chalmers, Patrick R. Kenneth Grahame: Life, Letters and Unpublished Work. London: Methuen, 1933. An official biography, published a year after Grahame’s death in consultation with his wife, Elspeth Grahame.

Graham, Eleanor. Kenneth Grahame. London: Bodley Head, 1963; New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1963. A monograph with an interesting section on the various illustrators and early critical reviews of The Wind in the Willows.

Grahame, Elspeth. 1944. First Whispers of “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame. Third edition. London: Methuen, 1946. A short memoir by Grahame’s wife.

Green, Peter. Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932):A Study of His Life, Work, and Times. Cleveland and New York: World, 1959. The best biography of Grahame to date. Notable for its complexity and depth, it situates Grahame within the Victorian period and examines his work through the events of his life.

Carpenter, Humphrey. Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children’s Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. An excellent overview of significant books for children during the years 1860—1930, from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh. It contains two chapters on Grahame entitled “Kenneth Grahame and the Search for Arcadia” and “The Wind in the Willows.”

Kuznets, Lois R. Kenneth Grahame. Boston: Twayne, 1987. Contains a fine critical assessment of The Wind in the Willows, with special emphasis on the book’s Odyssean plot and structure, as well as a discussion of Grahame’s early work and his contribution to children’s literature.

Milne, A. A. “Introduction.” The Wind in the Willows. New York: Heritage Press, 1940.