An expanded reading of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel at A2 — covering both halves of the book this time. The first half is the river-bank pastoral: Mole's discovery of the river, the lunch with Rat, the visit to Badger in the Wild Wood, the chapter where Mole almost loses himself in the snow. The second half is the comic adventure of Mr Toad — his arrest for reckless driving, his escape from prison disguised as a washerwoman, and the great battle to recapture Toad Hall from the weasels and stoats.
Where Storica's A1 reader of The Wind in the Willows stays with the river chapters, the A2 version reads the whole book in twenty-five chapters. The famous lyrical chapters that A1 trims (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Wayfarers All) are kept here in A2 prose.
Grahame wrote in clean Edwardian English with two registers: the gentle pastoral of the river-bank and the comic theatricality of Toad. Storica's A2 adaptation preserves both.
Wind in the Willows at A2 is the natural step up from the A1 version. Same animals, same world, but the A2 reader gets the whole book — the lyrical chapters that A1 has to trim, the comic Toad-adventure plot, and the gentle moral arc of Mole growing into a member of the riverside community.
Elementary. You handle simple past tense, basic dialogue, and short connected paragraphs. Vocabulary is around 1,500 words. You can describe what you read.
Yes — every book in the Storica catalog is available in all seven supported languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. The Wind in the Willows was originally written in English, but you choose your reading language when you start.
A2. Elementary. You handle simple past tense, basic dialogue, and short connected paragraphs. Vocabulary is around 1,500 words. You can describe what you read.
About one month at fifteen minutes a day. The adaptation runs to 25 short chapters — short enough to read before bed, long enough to actually move your level.
No. Storica's adaptation is the version you read. We keep the characters, plot beats, and tone of the original — and rewrite the language to fit the level. If you've read the original before, you'll recognise the story; if you haven't, the adaptation is a complete reading of the book.
Pick up where you left off. There are no streaks, no penalties, and no notifications begging you back. Day 12 is still Day 12 a week later.
The Wind in the Willows is rated A2, so we'd suggest starting with one of our A0 or A1 books first if you're brand-new to your target language. Check our shelf at /library/ — the readers there are short, gentle, and built specifically for week one.
Your first 30-day book is free. No card. No streak. Just a passage every morning.
Read it free for 7 days →A small group of readers working through classics in their target language — Kafka in German, Camus in French, Bovary in Spanish. Leave your email and we'll send your invitation.
Use this code in the app for 30% off your first year of Storica Pro.