1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up discussion

The Monthly Book Club read for July 2024 is Swallows and Amazons, by Arthur Ransome (1930).

Wikipedia describes this book as a children’s adventure novel – From Wikipedia -- “Swallows and Amazons is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome first published on 21 July 1930 by Jonathan Cape. Set in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District, the book introduces the main characters of John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker (Swallows); as well as their mother, Mary; and their baby sister, Bridget (nicknamed Vicky). We also meet Nancy and Peggy Blackett (Amazons); their uncle Jim (James Turner), commonly referred to as Captain Flint; and their widowed mother, Molly Blackett. It is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series, followed by Swallowdale.”


It is available online at –
• Available from Open Library -- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24598...

Information about the author and the book is available at --
• Wikipedia (Arthur Ransome, author) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...

• Wikipedia (Swallows and Amazons) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow...

I wish I could say that I enjoyed Swallows and Amazons but I found all that sailing lingo incredibly boring and uninteresting.

I did enjoy the book, even with the sailing lingo. The children's imaginations and the playfulness of the adults that joined in their games was fun. I found myself wondering just where the setting was, but I think it had to have been somewhere in Canada, as that is where it was printed.

The location is a semi-fictitous lake in the Lake District in the north of England.

https://arthur-ransome.fandom.com/wik...
https://swallowsandamazons.info/2018/...