Although Kenneth Grahame wrote only one novel, The Wind in the Willows, he published three collections of his essays: Pagan Papers, The Golden Age, and Dream Days, all of which contain material on childhood. Grahame believed that the ages between four and seven were the most important years in the formation of any person's nature.
During those years, Grahame felt, children develop their power of imagination.
This idea was not popular at the time, and most people believed that an overactive imagination led only to wasteful daydreaming and that fairy tales and myths did more harm than good.
Grahame, on the other hand, thought that adults whose imaginations.....
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