The Wind in the Willows childhood in Ardrishaig. There is a proposal that the idea for the story arose when its author saw a water vole beside the River Pang in Berkshire, southern England. A 29 hectare extension to the nature reserve at Moor Copse, near Tidmarsh Berkshire, was acquired in January 2007 by the Berks, Bucks, and Oxon Wildlife Trust. The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its
The Wind in the Willows (musical) novel "The Wind in the Willows" was being worked on by Julian Fellowes with music and lyrics to be penned by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The trio first worked together on the musical "Mary Poppins". In November 2013, a Crowdfunding exercise was launched to raise ten percent of the shows £6.5m budget, with a view to opening the show in London in 2015. Ultimately more than 10% was raised by that means, totalling one million pounds. The trio are also reunited with director Rachel Kavanaugh who directed Half a Sixpence as well as directing Stiles and Drewe's Peter Pan