Winter Holiday (Red Fox Older Fiction) [Paperback]

"There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating." -"TLS"

"He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure." -"Observer" --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Another adventure by the author of "Swallows and Amazons".

When Dick and Dorothea meet up with the Swallows and Amazons, they're soon swept into a wild adventure of polar expeditions, mountain rescues, blizzards, igloos, ice sailing and heroic work amidst the frozen wastes.

Swallows and Amazons

Swallowdale

Peter Duck

Winter Holiday

Coot Club

Pigeon Post

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

Secret Water

The Big Six

Missee Lee

The Picts and the Martyrs

Great Northern?

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in l884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in l917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in l929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.