Swallows and Amazons

By Arthur Michell Ransome, Helen Edmundson, Neil Hannon

Subjects: Adventure stories, Juvenile fiction, Children's camping and sailing adventures., Children's stories, Fiction, Sailing, Boats and boating, fiction, Children's fiction, Boats and boating, Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransome), Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Swallows (Fictitious characters), Camping, Adventure and adventurers

Description: 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.