K-8 English & Language Arts - Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

K-8 English & Language Arts - Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows (Run time 84 min.) DVD

The improbable adventures of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Mr. Toad himself in an artfully versioned, masterfully spoken, superbly animated version. Divided into three segments, this redaction of Kenneth Grahame's children's classic introduces viewers to gentle, inquisitive Mole and to Mole's House, his sampling of gentlemen's pleasures, and finally his return to his Home Sweet Home; to the suave and ever-optimistic Rat; the irrepressible Toad who discovers the motorcar and the aeroplane and goes to jail (or gaol) for calling a policeman "fat-cheeked"; the level-headed Badger who tries and fails to make Toad see reason; and to the slyly wicked Weasels, who are trounced as they fail to upset the gentle balance of nature in Kenneth Grahame's placid woods. (84 minutes)