The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a 1949 American animated package film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film consists of two segments — the first of which is based on the 1908 children's novel "The Wind in the Willows" by Scottish author Kenneth Grahame, and the second is based on the 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," called "Ichabod Crane" in the film, by American author Washington Irving. The film is the 11th Disney animated feature film, and the last of the
Fair Stood the Wind for France Maddy Fredericks in the Classic Serial strand. Fair Stood the Wind for France Fair Stood the Wind for France is a novel written by English author H. E. Bates. The novel was first published in 1944 and was Bates's first financial success. The title comes from the first line of "Agincourt", a poem by Michael Drayton (1563–1631). The story concerns John Franklin, the pilot of a Wellington bomber, who badly injures his arm when he crash-lands the aircraft in German-occupied France during the Second World War. He and his crew make their way to an isolated farmhouse and are taken