Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows & Amazons
10 best books like Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows & Amazons (Arthur Ransome): The Edge of the Cloud, New Treasure Seekers, The Mousewife, Jennings and Darbishire, The Magic Summer, An Enemy at Green Knowe, Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat, Sees Behind Trees, Six Cousins Again, World War I: The "Great War"
| Author | K.M. Peyton |
| ISBN | 0192750232 |
Christina and Will have escaped Flambards for London with their heads full of dreams, only to find a whole new set of problems. Not only the basic ones of work and a place to live, but Will's single-minded ambition to desing and pilot flying machines, which terrify Christina every time he leaves the ground....
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367667 |
The well-meaning but accident-prone Bastable siblings are given another outing by Edith Nesbit, following on from the success of
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
(1899) and
The Wouldbegoods
(1900). We reacquaint ourselves with the 'anonymous' author Oswald, with all his familiar malapropisms...
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0333344847 |
Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot—and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine....
| Author | Anthony Buckeridge |
| ISBN | 0755101537 |
Prehistoric clodpoll! ‘What did you want to go and make a frantic bish like that for’ Rule number nine million and forty-seven: Any boy beetling into class with twelve slippery raw fish shall hereby be liable to be detained during Mr Wilkins’ pleasure.? Jennings turns journalist when he receives...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 0394816315 |
Four children are sent from London to live for the summer with an eccentric poetry quoting Aunt in a rural part of Ireland. They are left to fend for themselves and in the process find friendship and enjoyment in day to day tasks. The children find that there are things to gain from their self sufficient...
| Author | Lucy M. Boston |
| ISBN | 0152024816 |
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. Now the children of Green Knowe--both alive and ghostly--are back in appealing new editions.
The spooky original...
| Author | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 0140311874 |
The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy
“There are many kinds of magic...and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in...
| Author | Michael Dorris |
| ISBN | 0078681357 |
Visually impaired Walnut cannot earn his adult name the same way other boys do, by hitting a target with a bow and arrow. With his highly developed other senses, however, he earns a new name: Sees Behind Trees. "Dorris takes on some meaty existential issues here; he does so with grace, bighearted empathy,...
Joint review of Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm and this book.
There are two brothers, David and Peter. Peter's the farmer, David's the townie. David's house burns down and he sends his children to Peter's house while he goes and tries to find work. He ultimately returns and buys a farm next to Mistletoe...
| Author | Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius |
This is a well-presented and insightful introductory course.
I was quite disappointed, however, that, despite spending time on post-war (inter-war) developments in the most important countries that chose a "third way" between representative governments with free or freeish markets and...
| Author | Willard Price |
| ISBN | 0224619268 |
Willard Price returns beneath the waves for the next thrilling adventure in the series, this time at Australia's Great Barrier Reef. This is the only book that embraces fantasy full-on with its fictitious Underwater City where civilians live out their daily lives. Although a city of this scale never...
Mary Lou at the Chalet School
| Author | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| ISBN | 0006902197 |
Mary-Lou Trelawney is a week late starting the autumn term at the Chalet School, after the sudden illness and death of her grandmother. Mary-Lou was very close to her 'Gran', and her death marks the end of Mary-Lou's childhood: she is also now a senior at the school and her long-established Gang is breaking...
