Third of a four-part series of excepts from The Wind in the Willows, covering chapters 6 & 8, and the beginning of 10 of Grahame's classic story, the whole set comprising a kind of Reader's Digest Condensed Book for American Children.
The illustrations are pedestrian, but the rating is for Grahame's prose, which does not suffer from being edited down to the essentials, although it is rather like scraping the whipped cream, cherry, and sauce off of an ice-cream sundae.

I am classing the individual volumes as a novelette.

(Dates for most recent reading.) ( )

Lovely illustrations, excellent abridgement. I saw an unabridged version of "The Wind in the Willows", illustrated by Michael Hague, and the illustrations were not nearly so appropriate and enjoyable. In Michael Hague's case, the illustrations are just too fanciful, but in Inga Moore's case, they are just right. ( )