Rat and Mole have stopped for a rest: they are frightened, tired and lost – to top it all off, it is snowing. This book tells
how the two characters find their way to a doorstep in the middle of the Wild Wood: Mr Badger’s home…
I love the part where Mole trips over a doorscraper and Rat realises there must be a doormat nearby but has to dig in the snow because the snow is so thick. When he finds it he informs Mole who thinks someone has just littered in the Wild Wood but Rat is determined to find the door which the mat is in front of. Therefore, he again scrabbles in the snow until he finds it and then, only then, Mole catches on that they had found Mr Badger’s house…
You can tell this book is
American because ‘assented’ is a word used and in the dictionary it says it is American…unless Kenneth Grahame was from the United States but Egmont is merely a British company splitting the original story into bits but still keeping it unabridged…American or British – does it really matter?