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Swallowdale (Swallows and Amazons, #2) Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
More 1930's kids camping/sailing/pirating adventures, this time with a shipwreck! And a cave! And a daring escape!

I think one of the things that's most charming about these books is that they're so detailed. It's not just, 'the Swallows made camp,' it's a five-page explanation of how their tents work, and how they built a fire, and how they made a broom from brush. The educational value is faded with time, but the charm hasn't.

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Date: 2009-09-18 06:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] readerjane
Oooh, sort of like Frances George's My Side of the Mountain? I loved all the details about building a fire and making turtle soup and digging out a treehouse.

Date: 2009-10-21 03:25 am (UTC)
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I am ashamed to say I don't actually remember that book well enough. It was assigned school reading, so naturally way less interesting than every other book I had at the time.

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