Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (author)

Swallows and Amazons

Suitable for 9 – 11 years

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“Swallows and Amazons for ever!”

The Walker children – Captain John, Mate Susan, Able Seaman Titty and Ship’s Boy Roger – set sail on the good ship Swallow and head for Wild Cat Island. There they camp under open skies, swim in clear water and go fishing for their dinner. But their days are disturbed by the Blackett sisters, the fierce Amazon pirates. And when the Swallows and Amazons decide to battle it out, a summer of high adventure begins!

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780099572794

Publisher

Vintage Children's Classics

Date published

August 1st, 2012

Lexile measure

800L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.1; Middle years; 15.0 points

Other details

  • 528 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life – as a baby in he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276ft high!

He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News. In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian newspaper. He knew many of the leading Bolshevik figures, including Lenin, Trotsky and the latter’s secretary, Evgenia Shvelpina. These contacts led to persistent but unproven accusations that he ‘spied’ for both the Bolsheviks and Britain.

Ransome married Evgenia and returned to England in 1924. He bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District in the late 1920s and worked as a foreign correspondent and highly-respected angling columnist for the Manchester Guardian.

He wrote Swallows and Amazons in 1930. And that was just the beginning of a series of twelve books which feature the same beloved characters and adventures with boats. Arthur Ransome died in 1967 and is buried at Rusland in the Lake District.

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  1. JetStar
    on 25 February 2018

    This book looks really good as I’ve seen the film and now it makes me want to read the book! I am definitely going to get this book!!!

  2. MaddieandMillie
    on 7 March 2014

    I absolutely love this book. It has a lovely plot. Arthur Ransome has set the scene amazingly. I give this book five stars.

    5 out of 5

  3. natashakrywald
    on 8 March 2013

    its a good book its just not my thing

  4. fiery75orange
    on 7 March 2013

    great

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