Kenneth Grahame
(1859 - 1932)
Kenneth Grahame (March 8, 1859 – July 6, 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, a chapter in his memoir of childhood, Dream Days. He served as secretary of the Bank of England.
Bibliography
The Golden Age (1954)
This second set of illustrations to Kenneth Grahame’s memories of childhood done by Ernest H. Shepard was only published in America.
Read online at archive.org.
Good Times Together (1958)
Includes Willie’s Pocket by Margaret Wise Brown with illustrations by Crockett Johnson reproduced in color. An anthology for younger children about people around the world.
Margaret Wise Brown
Kenneth Grahame
Maj Lindman
A. A. Milne
Et al
Marjorie Flack
Crockett Johnson
Maurice Sendak
Helen Sewell
Et al
The Headswoman (1922)
Jeanne is the hereditary holder of the office of headsman and succeeds to the office with the death of her father. Read online at archive.org.
Heights and Highways (1929)
An elementary school reader.
Hugh Lofting
Cornelia Meigs
Et al
Miska Petersham
A Hundred Fables of Aesop (1899)
Familiar fables with an introduction by Kenneth Grahame. Read online at the University of Florida.
Sir Roger L'Estrange
Lullaby Land, Songs of Childhood (1894)
Poems selected and introduced by Kenneth Grahame. Read online at archive.org.
Kenneth Grahame
Modern Fairy Stories (1955)
A collection of fairy tales by modern authors.
Kenneth Grahame
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
George MacDonald
Et al
My Dearest Mouse (1988)
The original letters Kenneth Grahame wrote to his son Alastair are reproduced with transcriptions and additional editorial matter.
Paul Bransom
Photographs
Arthur Rackham
Ernest H. Shepard
Pagan Papers (1894)
This first edition is the only one to include the essays under the title “The Golden Age” which were subsequently included in the book of that name along with additional chapters. Read online at archive.org.
Pagan Papers (1898)
This second and all subsequent editions contains only the eighteen essays, none of the Golden Age stories. Read online at archive.org.
The Reluctant Dragon (1938)
The Boy, the Dragon and St. George, arrange a satisfactory solution to the problem of a dragon living up on the Downs.
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The Reluctant Dragon (1983)
The boy is anxious for the dragon to prove himself, but the Dragon is no more interested in fighting than is St. George. The story tells how they manage to settle affairs.
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The Reluctant Dragon (1986)
This edition of The Reluctant Dragon includes a color illustration on the dust jacket. The story originally appeared in Kenneth Grahame’s Dream Days.
Toad of Toad Hall (1929)
The adventures of Toad from The Wind in the Willows, adapted to the stage by the author of Pooh.
A. A. Milne
Toad of Toad Hall with music (1930)
These are the songs that were in the play of The Wind in the Willows.
Kenneth Grahame
A. A. Milne
The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Mole goes out on a fine spring day and meets the water rat by the riverside. Before he knows it he is wrapped up in the doings of the river dwellers, including the notorious Toad. Read online at archive.org.
The Wind in the Willows (1913)
This is the first fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece about Toad, Mole, Rat and Badger and the riverside. The British first edition has a different picture on the cover and a colored frontispiece not in the American edition. Read online at archive.org.
The Wind in the Willows (1923)
Mole goes out on a fine spring day and meets the water rat by the riverside. Before he knows it he is wrapped up in the doings of the river dwellers, include the notorious Toad. This is the second fully illustrated edition. The end papers used were from the Bransom edition. The British edition was published in 1922. Read online at archive.org.
Paul Bransom
The Wind in the Willows (1927)
This is the third fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger. It was not published in America.
The Wind in the Willows (1933)
This was the fourth fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank. The British edition was published in 1931 and had a different dust jacket.
Read online at archive.org.