This slender volume of ghost stories, an annual tradition issued by Canadian Ash-Tree Press for several years, was quite good as well as interesting. The theme was authors who rarely, or never wrote ghost stories and certainly weren't known, except for Buchan, for their macabre output. These are all...
retold by Arthur Ransome, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz I vaguely remembered parts of this book as I was reading it. I might have read it as a kid (the white rolls particularly stood out to me). All in all it's the usual fare found in fairy tales. I did like the color scheme Shulevitz used.
Genre: Russia / Magic / Friendship / Royalty Year Published: 1968 Year Read: 2004 “The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship” has become one of the most popular folktales ever told and is masterfully told by Arthur Ransome. This book is set in a world full of both magic and wonders and shows ...
I grew up reading Enid Blyton -- The Famous Five, The (whatever) of Adventure, lashings of boarding school stories (see what I did there?) -- I loved the hearty, rosy-cheeked English children with their pluck and their tinned pineapple and potted meat sandwiches (I was mostly too young to catch all ...
BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERSIF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.Thus permission is given for four children, the youngest aged seven, to take the sailing boat "Swallow" and camp on an island near their summer holiday home. This is a story of being explorers: Captain, Mate, Able-seaman, and Ship's Boy. Of Amaz...
I wrote a review of this and it disappeared. It was a good review, too, nicely scathing about the tedium and the kids playing with matches and ending with a reference to Heart of Darkness as a metaphor for British colonialism.That it disappeared only solidifies in my mind the idea that it was the fi...
I'm taking it that this is a beloved children's book in England, given that it made it onto the BBC's Big Read list. I don't really see it. It was fine, but it didn't have the magic of some other great British children's books. Not a patch on Enid Blyton, for instance.Four children convince their mo...
Ok, we are now reading aloud this "Swallows and Amazons" book in the evening! See my review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65162316 for "Coot Club" to get the setting for this book. We are once again in the Norfolk Broads (rivers), but this time detective work is the order of the day to prov...
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