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The Wind in the Willows
- Narrated by: Cush Jumbo, Harriet Walter, Aimee Lou Wood, Susan Wokoma, Jennifer Saunders, Raj Gatak, Clare Corbett, Gerard McDermott, Stephanie Racine
- Series: The Wind in the Willows, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
Non-member price: $30.38
Publisher's Summary
Experience the classic tale of The Wind in the Willows as you’ve never heard it before.
Meet Lady Toad, Mistress Badger, Miss Water Rat and Mrs Mole as they go about their adventures, messing around on the river, gallivanting in Lady Toad’s shiny new toy and fighting valiantly to save Toad Hall from unruly squatters.
In this retelling by Dina Gregory, The Wind in the Willows becomes a story about a group of female animals to be admired for their close sisterhood and fierce independence. Featuring original music and songs by Rosabella Gregory and sound effects captured on location, put your headphones on, sit back and lose yourself in the British countryside.
Cover artwork and illustrations: Melissa Castrillon.
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- Pious
- 02-03-2021
Not the original story
Yeah there’s a reason why this one is included with your prime membership. It’s the story of Lady Toad… Not the story of Mr. Toad. Why they decided to change all the characters to female, I have no idea. It’s disrespectful to the author, who, if he had wanted to make all the characters female, would have written them thus.
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- Karla
- 30-12-2020
Great listen
What a fun, new twist on an old classic! My children and I enjoyed this during during Christmas school break.
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- katherine wright
- 06-03-2021
a wonderful listen
loved the narrator..!!..so well done..!! i listen while working on my orchids.. a perfect combination..
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- Tanya
- 22-02-2021
OMG! I'm in LOVE!!
IMHO, this version is better than the original. The characters are vivid and lovable (even Lady Toad, lol!), and the narration is SUPERB. I laughed, cried, and just lost myself in this story. I will recommend it to the high heavens and listen more than once. I've listened to hundreds of audiobooks on Audible, and this is in my #1 spot right now. Yes, it's THAT GOOD! Kudos ladies, and more please!
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- eileen
- 16-02-2021
Love it!
This is a very witty and well performed version of one of my all time favorite books. I still find myself going back to listen to a chapter or two just for kicks. Highly recommend!
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- Summer Kienitz
- 14-01-2021
Darling and well narrated
Everyone did a great job narrating and put wonderful emotion into the story. I especially loved all the ambient sounds that went along with the story. A fun light listen to take your mind off things.
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- Bel
- 11-01-2021
Simply marvelous
When I read that this book was adapted to the protagonists being female, I decided to give it a go. The book didn’t lose any of its charme—on the contrary, due to the wonderful narrators, it was even more charming than any other rendition I listened to. Absolutely marvelous, and highly recommended.
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- swampedbybunnies
- 08-12-2020
Why Bother?
Before I garner the usual criticism of being a misogynist dinosaur: I'm not. I do however resent the rewriting of other peoples work - especially long established works - to make them more acceptable to particular audiences. I recall with horror reprints of Biggles Books in the noughties where the WW1 squadron pilots were competing for bottles of lemonade rather than bottles of wine, because - I kid you not - it was deemed unacceptable to present children with adult pilots in a War Zone drinking alcohol.
This book is a well loved children's Classic for what it is. It is a book of its time, as all books are. Wishfully rewriting every book published throughout history to reflect particular views of more enlightened times is a pointless exercise in over the top Political Correctness. The time and effort would be better spent writing something original and new instead.
The fact that many people love The Wind in the Willows regardless of its Edwardian World View speaks volumes for the original and the author. And lets not forget that there are elements of Graeme's own life and sadness woven into the original narrative.
This awful rewrite ignores all that and substitutes a gender political world view of the 21st Century: but of course, its now a skewed and politicised version of the original work.
A much better approach would have been writing an original work that was both entertaining and reflected modern views and attitudes: an author doing this might create a children's classic of tomorrow. Please don't wreck any more of the well loved ones we've already got.
Note the 'Story' 5 stars are for the original story, the general thrust of which remains the same.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-12-2020
You can't give it away!
This was a free gift from audible. In my excitement I accepted the gift before I noticed the ominous word, 're-telling.' Then I discovered this was simply woke revisionism, where everyone is reduced to one aspect of their identity, and forced to obsess over it. No thanks. I don't want your progressive identitarian nonsense. This is to be permanently deleted from my account.
213 people found this helpful
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- Voice of reason
- 10-12-2020
Charmless
A charmless, arrogant and fashionable attempt to recontextualise a timeless classic. The high production values only serve to underline the fact that 'style over content' is the only strength in this unnecessarily patronising rewrite, a strength which is ultimately redundant.
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- Jmac
- 09-12-2020
No Magic
I just felt terribly disappointed with the lack of a magical feeling in this telling of the story
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- Weaver
- 09-12-2020
Terrible...
My wife and I thoroughly enjoy the original stories...but this is pure tripe!
The PC brigade comes to Audible.....avoid
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- Mr. J. W. Henderson
- 11-12-2020
Just Horrible
For some reason I see my last review was taken down..
Suffice to say, even free is too expensive for this clumsily shoehorned, politically instigated drivel.
Do yourself a favour and listen to the charming original, rather than encourage the destruction of yet another classic piece of British literature in the name of virtue signalling wokeness.
131 people found this helpful
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- Robert MacPhail
- 09-12-2020
Free but more pc idiocy! !
I am absolutely gobsmacked by this utterly pointless adaptation of a timeless classic. What next? Just Wilhelmina? Three Women in a Boat? Little Men?
129 people found this helpful
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- Anthony
- 10-12-2020
But why?
Yet another lazy, 'gender change for no real reason' , woke, nonsense... No thank you.
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- alan.r3id
- 13-12-2020
A classic ruined by the woke culture.
Why on earth does this classic need to be redone and making it all female?! Why does everything have to have an all female version these days.
It takes away from the original charm and fun completely. Avoid, glad I didn’t pay for this rubbish!
110 people found this helpful
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- Katherine Beckett
- 09-12-2020
Enjoyable if baffling
I don’t really understand the need to change the gender of the characters while keeping the story pretty much the same. To be honest the only reason I listened to this book was because it was free. The performances are good, and I never tire of hearing Jennifer Saunders’s voice. But let’s not come out with any more “feminist approved” versions of classics again?
84 people found this helpful
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