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And There’s Pirates Too!

Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome

December 25, 2025 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

So I decided that it was time to get back to my comfort zone of Swallows and Amazons, the 1930s series of adolescents messing around in boats and parents blithely telling them to have a good time but be sure to be back in time for the school term.  English, of course, if you couldn’t have guessed. But this, the third in the series, was something quite different, although the characters are mostly the same.  Peter Duck appears in the second story, but as am […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 1930s British Children's Lit, Adlescnts on their own more or less, And a real life Peter Duck this time, arthur ransome, earthquakes, Messing around in boats, pirates, Sure don't write them like this anymore :D, Typhoons!

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:65 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1930s British Children's Lit, Adlescnts on their own more or less, And a real life Peter Duck this time, arthur ransome, earthquakes, Messing around in boats, pirates, Sure don't write them like this anymore :D, Typhoons! ·
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