Winter Holiday

Nov 14, 2024 4:39 PM

Author:Arthur Ransome

Winter Holiday

'You know what it's like. Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays." Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea -- 'the D's' -- plan a race to find the North Pole. How will they reach it if they can't sail? By sledges of course! But when a blizzard blows up and there is a mix up about signals, the D's disappear into the Arctic night. Disaster looms. Can the Swallows and Amazons save their friends?

Reviews

Rewarding reading

—— Teaching and Learning

The pace is good, there is enough repetition of plot elements to keep readers in touch, and the setting is just different enough to be interesting

—— The School Librarian

Must be the funniest and subtles counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll

—— Guardian

There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this

—— Books for your Children

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