Amongst the many stories included in this volume is the tale of "The Reluctant Dragon", in which a boy negotiates a peace agreement between St. George and a benign and friendly dragon who has come to live on the English downs.
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Amongst the many stories included in this volume is the tale of "The Reluctant Dragon", in which a boy negotiates a peace agreement between St. George and a benign and friendly dragon who has come to live on the English downs.
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Parrish, Maxfield. Good. Ex-Library (1st published by The Bodley Head) Ex-library copy, larger book, dark blue cloth, scotch tape at top and bottom, front and back edges, very bright giltl lettering on spine, illustrations throughout. DJ has no library markings, cream background, beautiful illustration of castle and town on front, dark blue at top front. Near Very Fine DJ/Good book, considering it is ex-library.
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I love THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, and had expected to love this book too. Instead, I found it a rather tedious bid for sympathy for the author's childhood, one in which he and his orphaned siblings were raised by aunts for whom he had enduring spite.
I have little patience with books that depict adults as the enemies of children --and the idyllic rural setting in which the orphaned children shared their childhood with their aunts sounds blissful, an invitation to imaginative play. The author's account of it makes more vivid his scorn for "the Olympians" (the aunts who offered them a comfortable home are never named) that it does the warmth that may have existed between the siblings. (it would be interesting to know if his siblings may have enjoyed those years more than did young Kenneth.)
I'd never choose to share this book with a child; it is unattractively mean-spirited. I assume his later adult life was happier, allowing us to have the book that made his name.
Were it not for the lovely illustrations, my rating would have been one star.
