The Willows and Beyond

The River Bank friends are getting older, and begin to pass the torch to the younger generation. Badger has his long-lost Grandson, Toad has adopted a distant toad cousin from France as his ward, and Mole has his Nephew to carry on the family traditions. Now Rat hears from an old friend from long a......more

It was not easy to give a rating to this book, initially I intended to rate it just 3 stars, then 5, then I thought 4 could be more appropriate and at the end I changed my mind again and made it one of the few 5 stars book in my collection. The fact is that William Horwood made a choice before writin......more

There have been a lot of people over the years who have tried to write sequels to Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel. None of them, I would say, have ever QUITE managed to recapture the tone and feel of Grahame's masterpiece, or QUITE capture the personalities of the Riverbankers... but I th......more