Winter Holiday
October 15, 2019 - Comment
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A beautifully written book, stills charming and enchanting nearly fifty years after I first read it. I was prompted to venture down memory lane following a conversation with one of my colleagues after he had taken his daughter to see the new âSwallows and Amazonsâ film, and what a jot it proved. I loved the Swallows and Amazon books forty odd years ago and was a little worried that the intervening years might have eroded my capacity to enjoy the book with the same fervour as before. This has, after all, happened with several books that I have revisited after several years.It was,…
Wonderful story. Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey (That is physics by the way) I learned more from Arthur Ransome than I did at school- well certainly about outdoor pursuits and DOING stuff. As with all his books, there is so much detailed content about HOW TO do all sorts of interestsing and exciting things (well they WERE interesting and exciting before PC games and smartphones- YES the really WERE.) Not only is there practical detail but also a lot about human relations, generation conflicts and cooking.Ransome was not the only author I read between the ages of 9…
Brilliant for kids and adults alike I love this book and have read it many times over. It has a real feel good factor. Also it teaches kids how to discover, how to learn for a reason and how to play, but constructively. Basically it will inspire them as I’ve been inspired. You might mistakenly decide that this makes the book sound boring but no it’s a rattling good yarn that has a suspenseful ending. Join Dorothea and become enraptured with Frost and snow and the kind of children that anyone would want to hang around with…