- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: John Goodchild Publishers; New edition edition (26 July 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0863910378
- ISBN-13: 978-0863910371
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,255,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Winter adventure in snowy Shropshire,
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This review is from: Wings Over Witchend (A Lone Pine adventure) (Hardcover)
Malcolm Saville brings some of his Lone Pine Club together to stop thieves from stealing Christmas trees. The trees are planted on the Long Mynd and the Lone Piners join up with the foresters to save them. The members plan to help by watching the trees from the recently built fire tower. However, the irrepressible twins run away from the rest of the club, in search of clues, when they cannot get the attention they want. In doing so, they discover all the answers needed, but get themselves captured. They find that a hang-glider pilot is directing procedures from a radio up in the air, but also has the help of one of the foresters. Using their own cunning they escape, rescuing with them two of the foresters, also captured. They arrive back in time to find the forest on fire, set by the thieves to give them time to take more trees. They correctly identify the traitor among the foresters, and return heroes among the Lone Piners. If you read this story you will wish to read the other Lone Pine Stories-they're great!
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Christmas Blockbuster,
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This review is from: Wings Over Witchend (A Lone Pine adventure) (Hardcover)
An action packed, atmospheric entry in Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine series. A film version(unlikely thought!) would need a big budget to show the sweeping forest fires, blizzards, plane crashes and, yes, even gunfights (well, almost, one of the villans tries to shoot a dog and misses.)The big finale of the movie would be a red winged glider smashing into the top of a lookout tower, on which two of our heroes cling, a roaring inferno blazing below them.Typically of Saville, though, this scene is dealt with very swiftly, played down in fact. The youngsters' climb up to the tower top, conquering mild vertigo, helping each other to save face and keep their nerve is much more important.These moments are dealt with in much more depth and detail than the death-defying pyrotechnics. Although the plot in this book is less wafer-thin than in other Lone Pine stories, it is still his characters and setting that really interests the author, as usual. Tom's assertion that he can't imagine anything worse than people stealing young Christmas trees not only shows a disturbing lack of imagination, but a strangely poor memory. But, if the investigation is hardly into the Crime Of The Century, the gang's good humoured enthusiasm is engaging. As it is a children's book, I am probably alone in finding Oedipal echoes in David Morton's curiously addressing his mother as "darling"(while "ignoring the girls".) But even so, he is as worthy and wooden as ever; the much more fallible Tom Ingles is given a chance to shine in this story as, somewhat mercifully, David's entry is rather delayed. A well paced and exciting tale, I only hope some contemporary children's fiction has anything like as much heart and integrity. The Shropshire film industry starts here ?
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