Swallows and Amazons

About this book

This is one of the finest books for children, both boys and girls. In 1928, four children, aged 7 to 12 (?), whose father is in the navy, vacation with their mother and baby sister on a lake in the north of England. They borrow a 13' sailboat (the Swallow) from the farmer with whom they are staying, and camp on an island in the lake. They meet two girls (the Amazons), about the same age, and have realistic adventures together. The first in a series of twelve books, maybe the best kids' books ever written.

1. Swallows and Amazons 1930 This book
2. Peter Duck 1932
3. Pigeon Post 1936
4. We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea 1937

Subjects

• adventure and adventurers
• adventure and adventurers, fiction
• adventure stories
• amazons (fictitious characters : ransome)
• boats and boating
• boats and boating, fiction
• camping
• children's camping and sailing adventures.
• children's fiction
• children's stories
• fiction
• juvenile fiction
• sailing
• swallows (fictitious characters)