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The writing is a delight. The pace changes regularly - one minute you're messing about in boats and the next Toad is crashing yet another car or Ratty is off to rescue Mole from the Wild Wood, armed with a pistol and a stick. The battle to regain Toad Hall has me on the edge of my seat every time I read it. The story is suitable for children of about six years and upwards: Grahame makes no concessions with regard to vocabulary but I've never encountered a child who found any of it a problem. You are simply pulled along by the story.
I'll confess that I was nervous when I opened this book. It was the press release, you see. It spoke of a ''thoroughly modern makeover for Mole, Ratty, Badger, and Toad''and the story had been ''stunningly reimagined''. EEK! There are some things which you don't mess with and this book came high on my list of such things. It did take me a ''little'' while to retire ''my'' image of the four friends and substitute the illustrations by David Roberts - but they work well. They're more in tune with what children today will expect - and there are lots of them to enjoy.
The gift edition published by Oxford University Press in 2013 contains thirty two playing cards for family games.
