The Willows and Beyond (The Tales of the Willows)
Contributors: Patrick Benson (Illustrator)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: November 3, 1997
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780006496397
First sentence: It was late September, and after a week of storms and rain, which had caused the River to rise, and the once-glorious vegetation along the River Bank to grow old and bedraggled, the sun started to show itself again.