english, anglais, level 2, Niveau 2, elementary, American English, classics, classiques, lecture graduée, graduated reading 

The tales relate the adventures of several animal friends and neighbours in the English countryside—primarily Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger. Although the animals converse, philosophize, and behave like humans, each creature also retains its distinctive animal habits. The story begins when Mole decides to go to the riverbank one morning rather than do his spring cleaning. There he comes across his friend Rat, a water rat, and they spend the spring and summer together. One day they visit the irrepressible, generous, and boastful Mr. Toad, owner of Toad Hall, who possesses large amounts of money but not much brain. Toad is given to fads, and Mole and Rat join him in an excursion in his present enthusiasm, a horse-drawn caravan (a cart with beds and cooking equipment), until a speeding automobile frightens the horse and wrecks the caravan. Toad is mesmerized by the car. Mole and Rat later go to the Wild Wood to visit the kindly and responsible Badger, to whom they report that Toad has bought and smashed several automobiles. 

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Résumé : Au printemps, la rivière et les bois s'animent : les animaux sortent de leur terrier et redécouvrent les joies de l'amitié et de la vie en plein air. L'hiver revenu, ils goûtent à la douceur des longues soirées passées devant un feu de cheminée. Rat, Taupe et Blaireau coulent des jours heureux, et tout serait tranquille dans cette société en miniature si leur ami Crapaud, victime de sa vanité, ne se comportait pas comme un voyou et ne s'attirait pas toujours des ennuis. Leur sera-t-il possible de le raisonner un jour ?