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Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, 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 1929, 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. Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.
Again the Swallows and the Amazons, and this time two newcomers who share their winter holiday adventures. Arthur Ransome has the E. Nesbit quality, and the ability to make his boys and girls seem alive, and normal events take on glamor. Not so good a tale as PETER DUCK, but one that measures far above the average. (Kirkus Reviews)
