A book manufactured Grahame's fortune, enabling him to retire from either his despised (though respectable & easily-paid) bank job and retire to a united states, jolly very much doing what the animal characters in this book run.

Characters
Mole – mild-mannered Water Rat (or Ratty) – loves a river Otter – friend of Ratty Portly – boy of Otter Badger – powerful yet solitary Toad – mischievous estate-owner The Magistrate The Court Clerk The Gaoler The Screw's Daughter The Engine Driver The Flatboat Woman The Gypsy The Chief Weasel Pan – makes a single, otherwise anomalous, appearance

Adaptations
William Horwood created several sequels to The Wind in the Willows: A Willows within Winter Anuran Triumphant A Willows & Beyond A Willows at Christmas

A. A. Milne adapted The Wind in the Willows into a play called Toad of Toad Hall.

There are many film & television versions of The Wind in the Willows, notably including: a 1949 animated version by Walt Disney, one-half of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad a 1983 animated (by using prevent-motion puppets, non drawings) version by Cosgrove Hall, which was followed by an ongoing television series liquidate a equivalent style - this is largely think of the virtually all close adaptation a 1996 animated version sustaining an completely-star cast led by Michael Palin and Alan Bennett as Ratty and Mole; followed by an adaptation of The Willows inside Winter a 1996 survive-action version written & directed by Terry Jones

Jan Needle's Wild Wood was published within 1981 sustaining illustrations by William Rushton (ISBN 023397346X). These are basically The Wind in the Willows equally retold from either a ferrets' point of see.

Trivia
The number 1 album by acid rock class action Pink Floyd was called The Piper at the Gates of Dawn after Chapter 7 of The Wind in the Willows. A songs on the album, written largely by Syd Barrett, are not directly related the contents of the book. Being someway the comment around class kinetics in British society, it can be in comparison George Orwell's "Animal Farm".

Other uses of that title
A Wind in the Willows is likewise the song written by Alan Bell and performed by many creative person, including Blackmore's Night.