The Evolution of The Wind in the Willows [We Hate Your Kids]

[KiRby]

The Wind in the Willows —featuring the adventures of Mr. Frog and Mole, among others—has been entertaining kids since 1908. Its cover has gone through countless iterations, none of them quite as irksome as the cover of the 100th anniversary Vintage Classics edition, which they allowed a kid to draw. He was the winner of the cover contest! "It took me about an hour and a half to paint, quite a long time," young Harry Jones told London's Times. But it's all scribbly. Here, compare to Wind in the Willows covers from over the years:
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