Happy 100th Birthday Fay Library!

Here it is! What you’ve all been waiting for . . . the first episode of The Wind in the Willows podcast.

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Wind in the Willows–Chapter 1 Part 1

Episode #2 will be ready for listening on Tuesday, October 9. Always on the first day of the new effort period. Enjoy! and don’t forget that you can share comments about the podcast on this blog.

Here is the first Library Book Trivia Question! If you think you know the answer and you can’t wait until the next installment of The Wind in the Willows podcast to find out if you’re correct, then come down to the library and tell Mrs. D’Elia what your guess is or submit your answer below. Good Luck!

For the seventy-fifth anniversary edition of The Wind in the Willows, the book was republished with lovely illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Shepard also created the original illustrations of what other well-loved children’s classic, published in 1926, that has a full cast of delightful characters? Hint: Those characters live in the Hundred Acre Woods!

The Wind in the Willows was written in 1908 by Kenneth Grahame, a Scottish writer who started telling the tales of Mole, Rat, Badger and Mr. Toad to his son, Alistair, as bedtime stories.

What is a mole, you ask? Good question. Here is Grolier Online’s great description of a mole:

If there were a contest for the hardest working animal, the first prize would surely go to this small mammal that spends most of its life digging underground tunnels. Using its powerful front limbs and spade-shaped front feet, the mole digs through the dirt pushing a mass of earth, sometimes 20 times its own weight, upward to form a heap on the surface. The mole can dig at the rate of over 18 feet (5.5 meters) an hour. In less than a day, this champion builder can dig a tunnel over 300 feet (91 meters) long!