Not All Dragons Need Slaying

 

Do you remember The Wind in the Willows? Kenneth Grahame’s children’s novel began with the characters Rat and Mole paddling their canoe down a river through the English countryside, and ended with millions of young readers having a brand new idea of where books could bring their imaginations. Parents were pleased too; the heroes of the book were the kind and demure, not the brash and aggressive.

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