The Illustrators of The Wind in the Willows, 1908‐2008

One of three major scholarly books out this year to celebrate the centennial of The Wind in the Willows (the others being The Annotated “Wind in the Willows” (Gauger, 2009) and The “Wind in the Willows”: An Annotated Edition (Lerer, 2009)), this striking book provides a wealth of information on the many illustrators, both well known and obscure, who have tackled the peculiar problems of illustrating Grahame's classic fantasy of the English countryside.

Illustrators are presented in chronological order by date of the edition they illustrated. Stills from some animated and stop‐motion television and motion picture...