书名：The Wind in the Willows 柳林风声
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数730L
作者：Kenneth Grahame
出版社名称：Signet
出版时间：2006
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530141
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.6 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：240（以实物为准）
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The Wind in the Willows《柳林风声》是英国童话作家肯尼思•格雷厄姆写的一部“能安慰人心灵”的暖心之作，讲述了一个充满浪漫和友爱的动物童话故事。格雷厄姆从小热爱大自然，做过很多科学探索，经常在晚上和节假日进行写作。这部小说本是格雷厄姆为其子讲述的故事，后来整理成书出版；根据本书改编的舞台剧、影视剧也深受世界读者的喜爱。

书中一方面充满着童话的想象力和虚拟风格，另一方面又不乏现实生活场景，既是好的儿童文学作品，也是一部语言优美的散文。在阅读时，感受那份伟大的友情力量的同时，也可以学习他们乐于助人，互相帮助的品质。

媒体评论：
这是一本验证每个人性格的书。我们没有能力评论它，因为它在批评我们。
——英国著名童话作家、《小熊温尼•菩》作者 艾伦•米尔恩

Hailed as one of the most enduringly popular works of the twentieth century, The Wind in the Willows is a classic of magical fancy and enchanting wit. Penned in lyrical prose, the adventures and misadventures of the book’s intrepid quartet of heroes—Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and, of course, the incorrigible Toad—raise fantasy to the level of myth. Reflecting the freshness of childhood wonder, the story still offers adults endless sophistication, substance, and depth. The animals’ world embodies the author’s wry, whimsical, and unfailingly inventive imagination. It is a world that succeeding generations of both adult and young readers have found irresistible. But why say more? To use the words of the estimable Mr. Toad himself: “Travel, change, interest, excitement!...Come inside.”
With an Introduction by Luanne Rice

Review
“It is what I call a Household Book . . . a book which everybody in the household loves, and quotes continually ever afterwards; a book which is read aloud to every new guest.”
–A. A. Milne
《柳林风声》是一部妙趣横生、温馨有爱的动物童话，讲述的是几个小动物居家度日、外出游玩儿、离家历险，以及齐心协力夺回家园的故事。这里有胆小却喜欢冒险、对朋友十分忠诚的鼹鼠莫尔，有热情好客、宽容体贴又充满浪漫诗趣的水鼠兰特，有侠义持重、颇具领导风范又不喜社交的獾子班杰，还有虚荣浮夸、不断追求新事物、喜欢冒险刺激的癞蛤蟆托德。他们在风景如画的杨柳河岸、神秘莫测的野树林中演绎了一幕幕有乐同享、有难同当的美丽故事。

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肯尼斯•格雷厄姆（Kenneth Grahame，1859—1932），英国童话作家。他自幼失去双亲，跟着外公外婆在乡间生活，这使酷爱大自然和文学的他，得到了充分的滋养。而那风景如画的乡野风光，正是《柳林风声》中几个小动物的美丽世界。格雷厄姆一生坎坷，被家人安排做了一名银行职员。但骨子里对文字的热爱和对幼子的无限深情，使他用温暖细腻的笔触和奇幻丰富的想象力写出了《柳林风声》，描绘了诗意的大自然和友爱的小生灵，语言灵动，充满脉脉温情，是英国散文体作品的典范。

Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the third of four children. When he was five, his mother died, and his father sent the children to live with relatives in England. Kindly treated yet emotionally isolated, the Grahame children constructed a world of childhood pleasures. Although Kenneth left that world at the age of nine when he went to St. Edward’s School, its memory remained alive, even when he found no equal happiness in his adult life. Lack of funds ended his dream of attending Oxford and forced him to take a position with the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. In 1891, he anonymously published the first of his evocations of childhood, The Olympians, in The National Observer. The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898) established his fame. The Wind in the Willows, written to entertain his son, Alastair, was published in 1908. He wrote little thereafter, spending his remaining years in extensive traveling and in final retreat to the tranquility of the English countryside.
The River Bank
The Open Road
The Wild Wood
Mr. Badger
Dulce Domum
Mr. Toad
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Toad’s Adventures
Wayfarers All
The Further Adventures of Toad
“Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears”
The Return of Ulysses
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said “Bother!” and “O blow!” and also “Hang spring-cleaning!” and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air. So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, “Up we go! Up we go!” till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.
“This is fine!” he said to himself. “This is better than whitewashing!” The sunshine struck hot on his fur, soft breezes caressed his heated brow, and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled hearing almost like a shout. Jumping off all his four legs at once, in the joy of living and the delight of spring without its cleaning, he pursued his way across the meadow till he reached the hedge on the further side.