"with ""Swallows and Amazons"", published in 1930. It tells the story of the Walker children, who sail a dinghy named ""Swallow"", and the Blackett children, who sail a dinghy named ""Amazon"". The Walkers are staying at a farm near a lake during the school holidays; the Blacketts live in a house on the opposite shore. The Walkers consider themselves explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves to be pirates. The children meet on an island in the lake, and have a series of adventures that weave imaginative tales of pirates and exploration into everyday life in inter-war rural England. In subsequent"
"books, including those already published, and Webb's drawings were replaced in later editions. The book relates the outdoor adventures and play of two families of children. These involve sailing, camping, fishing, exploration and piracy. The Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger) are staying at a farm near a lake in the Lake District of England, during the school holidays. They sail a borrowed dinghy named ""Swallow"" and meet the Blackett children (Nancy and Peggy), who sail a dinghy named ""Amazon"". The Walkers camp on an island in the lake while the Blacketts live in their house nearby. When the"
"1940. ""The Trees"" was followed by ""The Fields"" (1946) and ""The Town"" (1950). A single-volume trilogy was published in 1966. Worth Luckett is a ""woodsy"" who provides for his family by hunting wild animals for food and trading their pelts for other commodities they need. When Worth notices that the wild game is leaving the woods near their settlement in Pennsylvania, he convinces his wife and family to move to where the animal population is more plentiful. They migrate into the Ohio Valley, in the fictional county of Shawanee, where they construct a log cabin. They are soon joined by"
"based on Ransome's book, but the script incorporates many changes to the plot. It chronicles the story of the Walker children on their holiday in the Lake District in the summer of 1935. They want to camp on an island in the lake. When they get there in the boat ""Swallow"", they soon discover they are not alone. Two other children, the Blacketts, also known as the ""Amazons"", have set up camp there, and a battle for the island begins. But with Britain on the brink of war and a ""secret agent"" looking for the Blackett children's uncle, they have"
"adapted as a United States TV miniseries by the same name, produced in 1978. The three novels were reissued in paperback in 1991 by Ohio University Press, and also in 2017 by Chicago Review Press. ""The Trees"" (1940) introduces the Luckett family, who emigrate from Pennsylvania to the Ohio Valley wilderness about 1795, after the American Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States of America. Told mostly from the point of view of the eldest daughter, Sayward, the novel explores how the family carves a homestead from the forest, suffering losses and hardships along the way. ""The Fields"""
"Summer"" (1958), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, is very loosely based on stories by William Faulkner, primarily ""The Hamlet"". That film was remade as the television series of the same name. <br> The Hamlet The Hamlet is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1940, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the first of the ""Snopes"" trilogy, completed by ""The Town"" (1957), and ""The Mansion"" (1959). The novel follows the exploits of the Snopes family, beginning with Ab Snopes, who is introduced more fully in Faulkner's ""The Unvanquished"". Most of the book centers"
"be partially based on a Pratchett novel, before he was replaced by Mike Mitchell. The Nome Trilogy The Nome Trilogy, also known in both the United Kingdom and the United States as The Bromeliad Trilogy, is a trilogy of children's books by British writer Terry Pratchett, consisting of the books ""Truckers"" (1989), ""Diggers"" (1990) and ""Wings"" (1990). The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now live hidden among humans. Through the books they struggle to survive in the world and, once they learn of their history from an artefact known"
"The Nome Trilogy The Nome Trilogy, also known in both the United Kingdom and the United States as The Bromeliad Trilogy, is a trilogy of children's books by British writer Terry Pratchett, consisting of the books ""Truckers"" (1989), ""Diggers"" (1990) and ""Wings"" (1990). The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now live hidden among humans. Through the books they struggle to survive in the world and, once they learn of their history from an artefact known as ""The Thing"", make plans to return home. ""Diggers"" and ""Wings"" are to be"
"read as contemporaneous sequels to ""Truckers"", as each book follows different characters through (mostly) concurrent events. The central character throughout ""Truckers"" and ""Wings"" is Masklin, while in ""Diggers"" it is mainly Grimma. Pratchett covered the idea of small people in his first novel, ""The Carpet People"" (1971/1992), about a race of tiny people even smaller than Nomes. That book is unconnected to this series. The main theme in the trilogy is the struggle of challenging society's accepted beliefs in the face of new information. This theme is recurring through the books and includes changes in the scientific establishment, political establishment,"
"The Hamlet The Hamlet is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1940, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the first of the ""Snopes"" trilogy, completed by ""The Town"" (1957), and ""The Mansion"" (1959). The novel follows the exploits of the Snopes family, beginning with Ab Snopes, who is introduced more fully in Faulkner's ""The Unvanquished"". Most of the book centers on Frenchman's Bend, into which the heirs of Ab and his family have migrated parts unknown. In the beginning of the book Ab, his wife, daughter, and son Flem settle down as tenant"
"Great Northern? Great Northern? is the twelfth and final completed book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published in 1947. In this book, the three families of major characters in the series, the Swallows (the Walker family), the Amazons (the Blackett sisters) and the Ds (the two Callums), are all reunited in a book for the first time since ""Pigeon Post"". This book is set in the Outer Hebrides and the two familiar Ransome themes of sailing and ornithology come to the fore. For this story, Ransome was inspired by an adult fan, Myles"
"The Clayhanger Family The ""Clayhanger"" Family is a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, published between 1910 and 1918. Though the series is commonly referred to as a ""trilogy"", and the first three novels were published in a single volume, as ""The Clayhanger Family"", in 1925, there are actually four books. All four are set in the ""Five Towns"", Bennett's thinly disguised version of the six towns of the Potteries district that merged into the borough (later city) of Stoke-on-Trent. Buildings described in the novels are still identifiable in Burslem, the basis for the fictional town of ""Bursley"". This coming-of-age"
"investigator. During this time, he began writing children's books. ""The Singing Farmer"", his first book, was inspired by a classroom farm exhibit. It was published in 1927. Tippett taught in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and South Carolina, while continuing to write children's books and edit educational textbooks. His works include: ""I Live in a City"" (1927), ""I Go A-Traveling"" (1929), ""I Spend the Summer"" (1930), ""Busy Carpenters"" (1930), ""Toys and Toymakers"" (1931), ""A World to Know"" (1933), ""Henry and the Garden and Stories about Henry"" (1936), ""Shadow and the Stocking"" (1937), ""Sniff"" (1937), ""Counting the Days"" (1940), and ""Abraham Lincoln"" (1951), as"
"by youngsters in holiday adventures, many featuring a Romany group. The Warner family series followed (1947–52), featuring pheasants, ponies and country life. The scraperboard illustrations of Joan Kiddell-Monroe greatly enhance these two series. A number of books experimented with the paranormal and time-slip, and can be compared with many modern books revisiting supernatural themes. ""Drumbeats!"" has a musical youngster beating a native drum which transports children to a lost expedition to Africa twenty years earlier. ""Dream Gold"" shows the hypnotic power of one boy over another, with dreams reliving the conflicts of their ancestors. These are his most interesting books,"
"named ""Swallow"", they meet the Blackett children (Nancy and Peggy) who sail a dinghy named ""Amazon"". The Walkers camp on an island in the lake while the Blacketts live in their house nearby. However, they soon realise this has been the territory of the two other girls who sail the ""Amazon"", and the scene is set for serious rivalry. Eventually they make friends and agree to join forces against a common enemy – the Blacketts' Uncle Jim whom they call ""Captain Flint"" (after the character in ""Treasure Island""). Uncle Jim, normally an ally of his nieces, has withdrawn from their"
"Walker Books Walker Books is an independent British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker, Amelia Edwards, and Wendy Boase. The company published 18 books in 1980 and now publishes 300 books per year. In 1991, the success of Walker Books' ""Where's Wally?"" series enabled the company to expand into the American market, starting a sister company called Candlewick Press in 1991. In 1993, Walker Books also entered the Australian market by establishing another sister company, called Walker Books Australia. In 2001, co-founder of Walker Books Amelia Edwards won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for her contributions to"
"Beatrix Potter; ""The Wind in the Willows"" by Kenneth Grahame (1908); ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (1926) and ""The House at Pooh Corner"" (1928) by A. A. Milne; and ""The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"" (1950) and the subsequent books in ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" series by C. S. Lewis. In many of these stories the animals can be seen as representing facets of human personality and character. As John Rowe Townsend remarks, discussing ""The Jungle Book"" in which the boy Mowgli must rely on his new friends the bear Baloo and the black panther Bagheera, ""The world of the jungle is in"
"children meet, they agree to join forces against a common enemy – the Blacketts' uncle Jim Turner whom they call ""Captain Flint"" (after the character in ""Treasure Island""). Turner, normally an ally of his nieces, has withdrawn from their company to write his memoirs, and has become decidedly unfriendly. Furthermore, when the Blacketts let off a firework on his houseboat roof, it is the Walkers who get the blame. He refuses even to listen when they try to pass on a warning to him about burglars in the area. To determine who should be the overall leader in their campaign"
"Swallows and Amazons Swallows and Amazons is the first book in the ""Swallows and Amazons"" series by English author Arthur Ransome; it was first published in 1930, with the action taking place in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District. The book introduces central protagonists John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker (Swallows) and their mother and baby sister (Bridget), as well as Nancy and Peggy Blackett (Amazons) and their uncle Jim, commonly referred to as Captain Flint. At the time, Ransome had been working as a journalist with the ""Manchester Guardian"", but decided to become a full-time author rather"
"Alden children make a nature museum from the flowers, shells and seaweed they have collected and the shapes of birds they have observed. One of her students recalled the wildflower and stone-gathering contests that Warner sponsored when she was a teacher. As well as her books in ""The Boxcar Children"" series, Warner wrote many other books for children, including ""The World in a Barn"" (1927), ""Windows into Alaska"" (1928), ""The World on a Farm"" (1931) and ""Peter Piper, Missionary Parakeet"" (1967). For adults she wrote ""Life's Minor Collisions"" and ""Pleasures and Palaces"" with her essayist sister Frances Warner. Warner never"
"The Children's Book The Children's Book is a 2009 novel by British writer A.S. Byatt. It follows the adventures of several inter-related families, adults and children, from 1895 through World War I. Loosely based upon the life of children's writer E. Nesbit there are secrets slowly revealed that show that the families are much more creatively formed than first guessed. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. The Wellwood family (Olive, Humphrey, Olive's sister Violet, and many children) are Fabians, living in a world of artists, writers, craftsman, all moving into new ways to express art, and living"
"upon two randomly selected words—cat and hat. Up until the mid-1950s, there was a degree of separation between illustrated educational books and illustrated picture books. That changed with ""The Cat in the Hat"" in 1957. Because of the success of ""The Cat In The Hat"" an independent publishing company was formed, called Beginner Books. The second book in the series was nearly as popular, ""The Cat in the Hat Comes Back"", published in 1958. Other books in the series were ""Sam and the Firefly"" (1958), ""Green Eggs and Ham"" (1960), ""Are You My Mother?"" (1960), ""Go, Dog. Go!"" (1961), ""Hop"
"Now and Forever"" (1866), ""Paul Barton; or. The Drunkard's Son"" (1869), ""Live and Learn"" (1869), ""Behind the Curtin"" (1869), ""Fashion and Folly"" (1869), ""The Hard Sum, and other Stories"" (1869), ""The Breach of Trust"" (1869), ""Lost but Found"" (1860), ""Edith Withington: a Book for Girls"" (1871), ""Ingleside; or, Without Christ and With Him"" (1886), and ""This and That"" (1887). Harriette Newell Woods Baker Harriette Newell Woods Baker (pen names, Mrs. Madeline Leslie and Aunt Hattie; August 19, 1815 – April 26, 1893) was an American author of books for children, and editor. Baker's career as an author began when she"
"Mr. Popper's Penguins Mr. Popper's Penguins is a children's book written by Richard and Florence Atwater, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, originally published in 1938. It tells the story of a poor house painter named Mr. Popper and his family, who live in the small town of Stillwater in the 1930s. The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, Captain Cook. The Poppers then receive a female penguin from the zoo, who mates with Captain Cook to have 10 baby penguins. Before long, something must be done lest the penguins eat the Poppers out of house and home. Mr."
"has one or two narrow escapes from being detained by them. The novel was originally written as a serial and, in 1938, published as a full-length novel. It was one of Enid Blyton's earliest adventure novels, preceding The Famous Five, The Five Find-Outers, The Adventure Series, The Secret Seven, and school books which would appear in following years. The children, reunited with their parents again (and Jack now adopted as part of the family), go on holiday at the rugged Cornish coast with a family friend, Miss Dimity (""Dimmy"", who would appear in several further books in the series), and"
"The company was founded in 1898 by Alexander Grosset and George T. Dunlap. Grosset & Dunlap is historically known for its photoplay editions and juvenile series books such as the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, Cherry Ames and other books from their long partnership with the Stratemeyer Syndicate (currently owned by Simon & Schuster). Today, Grosset & Dunlap's new juvenile series include Dish, Camp Confidential, Flirt (books), Katie Kazoo, Dragon Slayers' Academy, and Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver's Hank Zipzer series. Grosset & Dunlap obtained permission from Little, Brown, to reprint Thornton Burgess's many children's books,"
"was published for Christmas 1940. In December 1942 the ""Blinky Bill's Dress-Up Book"" was published by Offset Printing Company, which was released after Wall's death, in January 1942. This was followed in 1947 by ""Blinky Bill's ABC Book"" and ""A Tiny Story of Blinky Bill"", also published by Offset. In 1977 Angus & Robertson published the ""Blinky Bill Cookbook"", a series of recipes for children to make for themselves by Mary Coleman, which included Wall's original illustrations redrawn by Trevor Hood. Although the books have never been out of print, the Blinky Bill story has also been adapted for television"
"the first book in the series, ""Little House in the Big Woods"", revolves around the life of the Ingalls family in their small home near Pepin, Wisconsin. The family includes mother Caroline Ingalls, father Charles Ingalls, elder daughter Mary Amelia Ingalls, and younger daughter (and protagonist), Laura Ingalls Wilder. Also in the story, though not yet born historically, is Laura's baby sister Carrie. In the book, Laura herself turns five years old, when the real-life author had only been three during the events of the book. According to a letter from her daughter, Rose, to biographer William Anderson, the publisher"
"was published under the title ""A Blink of the Screen"". In 2014, a similar collection was published of Pratchett's non-fiction, entitled ""A Slip of the Keyboard"". Pratchett's first children's novel was also his first published novel: ""The Carpet People"" in 1971, which Pratchett substantially rewrote and re-released in 1992. The next, ""Truckers"" (1988), was the first in ""The Nome Trilogy"" of novels for young readers, about small gnome-like creatures called ""Nomes"", and the trilogy continued in ""Diggers"" (1990) and ""Wings"" (1990). Subsequently, Pratchett wrote the ""Johnny Maxwell"" trilogy, about the adventures of a boy called Johnny Maxwell and his friends,"
"their families and they talk about their futures. Lalla's coach tells her that she will never be a good enough figure skater to succeed in competitions, but that she could be a fantastic show skater and performer; whereas Harriet has potential to be a great skater one day, as she is better at the figures required to do well. There are more short stories that Noel Streatfeild wrote including the characters from ""White Boots"": White Boots White Boots is a children's novel by Noel Streatfeild. It was first published by Collins publishers in 1951. The book was published under the"
"chance, being so much dominated by Nancy"". When Ransome was first writing ""Swallows and Amazons"" in 1928, it was unusual for a female character to display such active leadership over males as Nancy Blackett does in the whole series of books and whilst children in children's literature had become increasingly self-motivated towards the end of the 19th century, they were, until Swallows and Amazons, still largely bounded by a ""closed nursery-orientated world"". In ""Secret Water"", Daisy the leader of the ""Eels"" is their leader, although younger than her brothers Dum and Dee. Nevertheless, despite writing Nancy in an unconventional role,"
"appeared in Puffin Books in 1963. This is the story of the Ruggles siblings Kate, Peg and Jo - three of the seven children of Mr Ruggles the dustman and Mrs Ruggles the washerwoman - who go on holiday to the Dew Drop Inn (located in the imaginary village of Upper Cassington) while they convalescence from the measles. Garnett subsequently wrote a final book in the series, ""Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn"", which details Kate's return visit to Upper Cassington alone the following summer, with the setting remaining as the late 1930s. This was first published by Heinemann in"
"When Billy witnesses children throwing stones at Weeps, who is unable to fly, he trades his scout knife for him. Unlike Wol, Weeps has an anxious disposition and sits on the handlebars of Billy's bicycle due to his inability to fly. Billy has a number of adventures with Wol and Weeps, including tough times and happy moments. When Billy and his family move to Toronto, Ontario, he entrusts the owls to Bruce. Owls in the Family Owls in the Family novel written by Farley Mowat first published in 1961. Billy is a boy who resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan who brings"