When this author was a child, his mother died and his father disappeared, and he moved from Edinbugh to his grandparents' home in the Berkshire countryside of England, where he fell in love with the creatures there, a rat, a mole, a badger and a toad. As an adult he followed neo-paganism, preferring nature to organized religion. His marriage was unhappy, but his son inspired him to make up stories which led to one of the best loved read-aloud books in the English language. The book is Wind in the Willows, and the author is Kenneth Grahame, 1859-1932.
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