Posted by Mike Dennis on April 05, 2010 at 22:41:53 user MTD.
In Reply to: Re: Top 20 Children's Books posted by Peter Ceresole on April 04, 2010 at 09:57:12:
Peter, I would agree about The Wind in the Willows being more appreciated by adults.
It does have the problem of clearly being aimed at children but in style and language written for adults. Years later Richard Adams was to have the same problem - a book about thinking talking rabbits has to be for children? Well, no - but Adams is now saddled with that reputation; and though he did write other animal books he wrote an adult book that tends to get overlooked (The Girl in the Swing).