The first two illustrated editions of The Wind in the Willows were both American, as the book was initially more successful in the U.S. than in England, thanks in part to the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt. It also had and has that nostalgia for 'the old country', an England long gone.
. Paul Bransom (July 1885 – July 19, 1979) was an American painter, cartoonist, and specialist illustrator of animals. Born in Washington, D.C., as a child Paul started sketching animals he saw in his backyard and at the National Zoo. After moving to New York, his talent as a wildlife artist was recognised while creating studies of the animals at the Bronx Zoo. His earliest commissions were covers for the Saturday Evening Post and illustrations for editions of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.
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