Return of the Antelope

by Peter Dickinson, Gordon Fairclough (Contributor)

The adventure of the Antelope began one day at the seaside in 1899, when Gerald and Philippa left their picnic hamper on the beach as they rushed for shelter from a sudden downpour of rain. Returning the next morning, the children discovered that three very unusual shipwrecked mariners had taken refuge inside the hamper - none of them bigger than Gerald's hand. Two hundred years after Gulliver's voyage to Lilliput, three of the little people have retraced his journey in a ship named, after Gulliver's own, the Antelope.

Willis Hall's novel is based on the thirteen-part TV series he wrote for Granada Television.

Genres: Childrens

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First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL was a prolific English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories.

Peter Dickinson lived in Hampshire with his second wife, author Robin McKinley. He wrote more than fifty novels for adults and young readers. He won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Award twice, and his novel The Blue Hawk won The Guardian Award in 1975.

Reviews

[Derelict Space Sheep · Rating 3 out of 5]

42 WORD REVIEW:

Hall excels in depicting minor characters and incidental detail, yet there remains a largely untapped visual element to this children’s fantasy of Lilliputians who have ill-fatedly retraced Gulliver’s Travels back to England. The book reads like — and is — an adaptation from television.

[Mya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Doesn't start if that great but I pushed myself through and I loved it so much❤️️