The Wind in the Willows（柳林风声）

    《柳林风声》是以动物为主角的童话，文笔典雅，描写细致，富含哲理。书中塑造了几个可爱的动物形象：胆小怕事但又生性喜欢冒险的鼹鼠，热情好客、充满浪漫情趣的水鼠，侠义十足、具有领袖风范的老獾，喜欢吹牛、炫耀、追求时髦的蛤蟆，敦厚老实的水獭——他们生活在河岸或大森林里，有乐同享。有难同当。

        Since its first publication in 1908, generations of adults and children have cherished Kenneth Grahame’s classic, The Wind in the Willows . For in this entrancing, lyrical world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds live four of the wisest, wittiest, noblest, and most lovable creatures in all literature—Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall. Like true adventurers, they glory in life’s simplest pleasures and natural wonders. But it is Toad, cocky and irrepressible in his goggles and overcoat, whose passion for motorcars represents the free and fearless spirit in all of us; just as it’s Toad’s downfall that inspires the others to test Grahame’s most precious theme—the miracle of loyalty and friendship.