Ransome note – ‘Swallows and Amazons’ – The Irish Times
Sir, – I write in response to Donald Clarke’s review of the new ‘Swallows and Amazons’ film (“Oh golly-gosh! We’re in the wrong century”, August 18th)…
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Swallows and Amazons book review, 1930 – archive – The Guardian (blog)
Children’s books are probably the most difficult of all to write; they are certainly the most difficult to review. For children alone can properly judge their worth, and children, very wisely, never review. An adult has to refer back to his own …
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Swallows and Amazons: The Syria connection – BBC News – BBC.com – BBC News
The Walker children in Arthur Ransome’s famous book – now a new film – were actually inspired by a family from the Syrian city of Aleppo.
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Arthur Ransome: Remarkable story of the man behind Swallows and Amazons – Yorkshire Post
WITH its summer idyll of campfires and children playing pirates Swallows and Amazons is one of those adventure stories, like Peter Pan and Treasure Island, that has stood the test of time.
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From MI6 to tea with Trotsky: the secret life of Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome – Telegraph.co.uk
‘Any book worth reading by children,” wrote Arthur Ransome in his autobiography, “is also worth reading by grown-up persons.” As one of the millions who loved the Swallows and Amazons books as a child, I was wary of revisiting them as a grown-up person …
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New edition of Swallows and Amazons to be published to tie in with new film – The Westmorland Gazette
Swallows and Amazons , originally published in 1930, tells the story of the Walker children, whose summer holiday in the Lake District sees them sailing their boat ‘Swallow’ to a local island, only to find themselves up against a couple of girls who …
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Food in books: gooseberry tart from Swallows and Amazons – The Guardian
Along with the Famous Five, who spent every one of their school holidays uncovering some sort of crime, I most longed to live alongside the Swallows and Amazons , sailing across the Lakes.