Description
A master storyteller, sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests, has created characters who are accepted as friends by children everywhere, not to mention plots which are eminently plausible and unexpected.' SUNDAY TIMES, in an article listing Swallows and Amazons among '99 Best Books for Children.
About the Author
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.
Awards
Winner of V&A Illustration Awards 2013 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9780224606318
Author Arthur Ransome
Format Hardback
Page Count 384
Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 140mm * 38mm
About the Author
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.
Awards
Winner of V&A Illustration Awards 2013 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9780224606318
Author Arthur Ransome
Format Hardback
Page Count 384
Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 140mm * 38mm
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