The Film 'Swallows and Amazons' - Childhood Classic

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS is a truly great film, if you have not already seen it you should. My late Grandma introduced me and my sister to it, when we were about 8 years old and ever seen then i have watched it over and over again. Its a classic and as a younger child or i guess for me still now, it revolves around adventures/treehouses/camping and building boats with 2 different groups of children. I guess everything you want to do as a child growing up you want to do!! As i said i want to now...lol! I have recently found out that a local theatre group in Bristol are doing a stage production of the film for the duration of Jan 2011 and i cant wait I'm going to see it.. London need to stage it next..

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wallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome; it was first published in 1930, with the action taking place in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District.

Plot summary

The story follows the Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger), who sail a borrowed dinghy named Swallow, and the Blackett children (Nancy and Peggy), who sail a dinghy named Amazon. The Walkers are staying at a farm near a lake during the school holidays and want to camp on an island in the lake; the Blacketts live in a house nearby. The children meet on the island which they call Wild Cat Island, and have a series of adventures, involving sailing, camping, fishing, exploration and piracy. The story, set in August 1929, includes a good deal of everyday Lakeland life from the farmers to charcoal burners working in the woods; canned meat, which the children fancifully refer to aspemmican, and ginger beer and lemonade, which they call grog, appear as regular food stuff for the campers; island life also allows for occasional references to the story of Robinson Crusoe. "Captain Flint", the Blackett's uncle James Turner and sharing the same name as a character in Treasure Island, appears in some ways to be modelled on Ransome himself.

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