Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with twentieth-century mentality and well-written
—— Times Literary SupplementQuite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives an added pleasure
—— Glasgow HeraldThe Alices are the greatest nonsense ever written, and far greater, in my view, than most sense.
—— Sir Philip Pullman