![]() Her school in Adelaide had an impressive library where all the children's books (mostly British) were uniformly leather bound. And the countryside: "I felt I could go a little further than Shepard, and show more of that whole world the characters inhabit."īorn in Sussex but brought up in Australia from the age of eight, Moore feels a powerful attachment to the English countryside. But above all, it was the very "Englishness" of it that appealed. She was intrigued by the idea of illustrating – and abridging – it, and making it accessible to a younger readership. She'd read the book first as a teenager in Australia, and loved it for its celebration of kindness and companionship. ![]() Shepard's are the definitive illustrations." I might have thought about it, but only as an impossible dream. ![]() ![]() "I'd been in the pub with an old boyfriend and he'd suggested it, quite out of the blue. Was it really a "long-harboured ambition", as it says on the dust jacket? "Not exactly," she says, almost guiltily. ![]() Inga Moore's glorious interpretation of Kenneth Grahame's masterpiece (with almost 100 illustrations) has now sold more than a million copies worldwide. ![]()
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