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  2. Kenneth Grahame - Wikipedia

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    Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 at 32 Castle Street in Edinburgh.His parents were James Cunningham Grahame (1830–1887), advocate, and Elizabeth Ingles (1837–1864).). When Grahame was a little more than a year old, his father was appointed as sheriff-substitute in Argyllshire, and the family moved to Inveraray on Loch Fyne with Grahame, his older sister, Helen, and his older brother ...

  3. The Wind in the Willows - Wikipedia

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    Grahame, Kenneth (1944), Grahame, Elspeth (ed.), First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows, Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott tells how the stories evolved from bedtime stories (and letters, in his absence) for his son Alastair, then known as "Mouse". Hunt, Peter (1994). The Wind in the Willows: A Fragmented Arcadia. New York: Twayne ...

  4. The Reluctant Dragon (short story) - Wikipedia

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    One scholar describes the book as "a story about language", such as the "dialect of the illiterate people", and the "literary aspirations of the dragon". [3] The story also has an opening scene in which a little girl named Charlotte (a character from Grahame's The Golden Age) and a grown-up character find mysterious reptilian footprints in the snow and follow them, eventually finding a man who ...

  5. Mr. Toad - Wikipedia

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    The inspiration for Mr. Toad's wayward mischievousness and boastfulness was Kenneth Grahame's only child Alastair: a family friend, Constance Smedley, overheard Grahame telling Alastair the exploits of Toad as a bedtime story, and noted that "Alastair's own tendency to exult in his exploits was gently satirized in Mr. Toad". [1]

  6. The Wind in the Willows (band) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The group took its name from British writer Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature. [3] The band's only album, the self-titled The Wind in the Willows (1968, Capitol Records LP2956), [4] grazed the Billboard Top 200 album chart at #195. The band broke up the following year, after failing to achieve ...

  7. Decades after his father vanished, one man wonders what role ...

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    In the summer of 1992, roughly a year-and-a-half after Elmer’s second phone call to his son, Kent Walker, Sante’s older son, recalled witnessing an alcohol-fueled argument between his mother ...

  8. The Reluctant Dragon (1941 film) - Wikipedia

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    Most of the film is live-action, with four short animated segments inserted into the running time: a black-and-white segment featuring Casey Junior from Dumbo; and three Technicolor cartoons: Baby Weems (presented as a storyboard), Goofy's How to Ride a Horse, and the extended-length short The Reluctant Dragon, based upon Kenneth Grahame's book ...

  9. 'Nancy Drew' Alum Kenneth Mitchell Dead at 49 After ALS Battle

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    Kenneth Mitchell Todd Williamson/Getty Images Nancy Drew and Star Trek: Discovery actor Kenneth Mitchell died after a five-year battle with ALS. He was 49. “With heavy hearts we announce the ...