“Nobody who ever read The Wind in the Willows wants it to ever end. Thank you, Frederick Thurber, for this delightfully worthy sequel, in a fresh new setting, and with gorgeous artwork by Amy Thurber. I love it!”
— Sy Montgomery, author of How to Be A Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus
“Charm, fun, adventure; the sparkle of light on water and wit in words. Thurber layers his own deft imagination onto a beloved classic, and returns us to a world lost to most of us — one that he never left.”
— Dominique Browning, writer, editor emeritus House & Garden, co-founder of Moms Clean Air Force
“A stunning sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 children’s classic.... Written in an old-fashioned vernacular that feels similar to the original, this pastiche is simply enchanting.... The whole package is a gem.”
— Lauren Daley, Book Columnist, The New Bedford Standard-Times
“It really, truly is charming . . . . If Kenneth Grahame captured your heart with the adventures of woodland creatures in The Wind in the Willows, then Frederick Thurber is sure to keep it as he explores the antics of said creatures’ offspring in his sequel, In The Wake of the Willows, a charming book that captures the essence of Grahame’s work and infuses it with Thurber’s own deep knowledge and love of the natural world.”
— Jeannette de Beauvoir, Writer and host of Arts Week on WOMR.
“Enchanting…”
— Dr. Jonathan L. Atwood, Director of Bird Conservation, Massachusetts Audubon Society
“Thurber’s writing is witty, charming, and dear. He has set the tone perfectly…The world he has crafted is both a homage to Grahame’s classic tale and original. It is inviting, and beautifully rendered.”
— Susie Spikol Faber, author and School Outreach Coordinator and Teacher Naturalist at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, New Hampshire.
“This delightful sequel to The Wind in the Willows features a new generation of young animals who learn to value nature, hard work and family as they grow up. It is fun to read, and fun to read aloud.”
— Tom Gidwitz is a writer, editor, and photographer specializing in archaeology and volcanology. Formerly editor of Currents, the members quarterly at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a contributing editor for Archaeology Magazine, he is the author of The Story in the Stone, a children’s book on the Smithsonian Institution’s Panama Paleontology Project, which revealed how plate tectonics built the Isthmus of Panama.
