The Wind in the Willows

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Here you are twelve of them, belonging to the first three chapters (and the cover) of K. Grahame’s wonderful novel: Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9173 Ocr_module_version 0.0.6 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19874 Openlibrary_edition

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After leaving school, Moore took a variety of jobs. Raymond Briggs’s book Father Christmas (1973) inspired her to want to illustrate books, and she began to look for work as an illustrator. [2] An early work, Aktil’s Big Swim (1980), tells the story of a Dover mouse who decides to swim the English Channel, not understanding how wide it is. [3]In the early 1980s, Moore returned to live in England, settling in Hampstead, while still working on picture books. Her Six-Dinner Sid (1990), an illustrated book for children about a cat, took six months to complete [2] and won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in the under-five category, [4] but during the recession of the early 1990s her flat was repossessed. This had a happy outcome, as Moore then found an apartment in a large but decaying Palladian house in a Gloucestershire village, with good light in a room she planned to use as a studio. Not far from the River Windrush, the countryside around the house inspired the illustrations for Moore’s edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, which went on to sell more than a million copies. [2] Her editions of other children’s classics include Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost. [5] I entirely agree (well, perhaps it’s not criminal, because I do love freedom of expression and everything else 🙂 , but truly unsatisfactory). urn:lcp:adventuresofmrto0000grah:epub:d0aa9aeb-2968-44b0-a426-f3f086c8a797 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier adventuresofmrto0000grah Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1fk25145 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0744555264

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Gradually she was seduced by the idea. She'd read the book first as a teenager in Australia, and loved it for its celebration of kindness and companionship. She was intrigued by the idea of illustrating – and abridging – it, and making it accessible to a younger readership. But above all, it was the very "Englishness" of it that appealed. And the countryside: "I felt I could go a little further than Shepard, and show more of that whole world the characters inhabit." She has an unusual ability to change her style to suit her feelings about each book. "It's useful, yes," she says, adding ruefully, "but I can't help thinking that's rather a serious fault." This natural empathy is the key to her anthropomorphic wizardry. Like Beatrix Potter, she has an easy understanding of anatomy which allows her to give the animals human characteristics (and clothes) without sentimentalising or ridiculing them (except for Toad who, although always sensitively drawn, is never knowingly underplayed). Eloquent in stance and gesture, the animals express themselves physically as well as they do verbally. She is somewhat –or, in fact, very– reclusive, and as far as I know she does not have an official web presence. Of course others have posted her work, but not at all as much and as thoroughly as it deserves, with high resolution scans of the illustrations. After The Wind in the Willows it made sense to use the same location for another classic – Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel The Secret Garden. I was spellbound by this book as a child, and always lingered over Charles Robinson's colour plates. Looking at that old book now I'm astonished to see that it had only nine illustrations. Moore has provided more than 100.She draws animals with a confidence born of empathy. "If I want to draw a buzzard," she explains, "I just imagine myself up there, and I can feel myself flying. I simply put myself in the body of whatever creature I'm trying to draw – I used to think everyone did that."

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In a beautiful single volume, Inga Moore’s magical illustrations bring Kenneth Grahame’s much-loved classic to life for a new generation of readers.Wind in the Willows Print - Childrens Room Decor - Nursery Art - Map Decor - Wall Art Gifts for Children #vi224 But when her flat was repossessed, she decided to leave London, and found a rambling, upstairs apartment in a crumbling Palladian pile in rural Gloucestershire. And that's where we meet, buzzards wheeling overhead as Moore shows me round. "I knew immediately that with this position, the quality of the light in the studio and the abundance of wildlife, it was the perfect place to live and work on The Wind in the Willows," she says. "I could never have done it in London." As of 2010, Moore was still living and working in Gloucestershire. Following her version of The Wind in the Willows, she is reported to be working on a sequel. [2] Books by Inga Moore [ edit ] Ms. Moore works eclectically, through a multi-layered approach, using graphite and coloured pencils, Indian ink, watercolour and even oil paints.