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I first read these books something like 60 years ago. This book is in the public domain in Canada, and is made available to you DRM-free. The twelve books involve adventures by groups of children, almost all during the school holidays and mostly in England, but including four sailing trips that go outside England. In this book there is not much of that going on at all, as the cast, made up primarily of young children, are already expert sailors with the exception of only two children.

The Swallows and Amazons series is a series of twelve children's books by English author Arthur Ransome, named after the title of the first book in the series and set between the two World Wars. Peter Duck is a fantastical break from the others and you could probably skip Coot Club without missing too much. We read this book as a selection for my children's homeschool curriculum, after having read the first book in Ransome's series some years before - 'Swallows and Amazons' External links [ edit ].

They soon meet Tom Dodgson, Port and Starboard, and three pirate salvagers. Shop this series. The river setting is unfamiliar and none of the original cast were in it. There is plenty of jeopardy as they try and avoid the hullaballoos, navigate the treacherous tides, and work out who they can trust and who they can't. The females of the party sleep in Teasel , while Tom and Dick share Tom's small sailing boat Titmouse.

Rate this book. He hides for fear of disgracing his father, who is the local doctor.

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Ransome, Arthur. The Callum children spend their Easter holidays on The Broads with a family friend, Mrs Barrable, who is staying on a small yacht called the Teasel, moored near the village of Horning. There are some proper working class kids in the story, too bound to our middle-class protagonists by a shared love of place and fauna who actually end up saving the day, despite their slightly less fancy equipment.

Show full review. They have arrived to find they will be using this wonderful boat as merely a houseboat.

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Still a fun story though. FP now includes eBooks in its collection. No Swallows or Amazons in this one, but Dick and Dorothea getting a chance to learn more about watery practicalities from other kids should stand them in good stead for when they do return to the Lake District. Through a piece of imprudence on the part of Mrs Barrable, Teasel and Titmouse are caught on a falling tide on Breydon Water and go aground, within shouting distance of each other, but just a little too far apart to be able to pass things between them.

The book sees Dick and Dorothea Callum visiting the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail and thus impress the Swallows and Amazons when they return to the Lake District later that year. I found myself totally immersed in the story. I would recommend this books to people of all ages and of either gender. I enjoyed the sailing and birding adventures and all the new characters, especially the Admiral and her pug, William.