Arthur Ransome

• Feb-1968
• / Fantasy
• 

When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship is the w...

• Feb-1985
• / General Fiction
• 

A group of English children share a summer adventure, featuring a shipwreck, a secret valley and cave, a thrilling mountain hike, and a stickler aunt. On summer holiday, the Swallows (John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker) and the Amazons (Nancy and Pe...

• Apr-1989
• / General Fiction
• 

New friends, a blizzard, a frozen lake, and a case of the mumps make one grand wintertime adventure for a group of children in this classic series. The Ds (Dick and Dorothea) meet the Swallows and Amazons during the winter beside the lake and they al...

• May-1990
• / General Fiction
• 

Danger and excitement await a vacationing brother and sister when they team up with local children to stop poachers in eastern England. Dick and Dorothea Callum came to the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail. There, the...

• Apr-1992
• / General Fiction
• 

The Swallows, Amazons, and friends search for gold in the Lake District Hills -- camping out, evading dangers, and staying in touch via homing pigeon.Nancy and Peggy Blackett receive a letter from their Uncle Jim who’s on his way home after failing...

• Jun-1994
• / General Fiction
• 

Four siblings go on an accidental adventure when they’re swept across the sea -- all the way to Holland -- in this entry from the classic children’s series. The Swallows only meant to sail within an estuary on a borrowed boat. They didn’t mean ...

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
• 

In the eighth book in Arthur Ransome's beloved Swallows and Amazons series, the five Walker children are left on a "desert island" by their parents with provisions for a long stay and a blank map to fill in. Like all of Ransome's books, this is at on...

• May-2000
• / General Fiction
• 

In this (more or less) sequel to the adventures of Coot Club, Arthur Ransome returns once more to his beloved Norfolk Broads where trouble is again brewing for Joe, Bill, and Pete, the three boatbuilders' sons who (more or less) live full-time aboard...

• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction
• 

“In a class by itself.” ― The Guardian The original cast of Swallows and Amazons is sailing under the stars and the command of Captain Flint in the South China Seas when Gibbet, their pet monkey, grabs the captain’s cigar and drops it into t...

• Jan-2002
• / General Fiction
• 

As the classic series continues, an unexpected visitor forces a group of children to go to great lengths to enjoy a summer of fun and adventure.   The Amazons’ mother (doubtless suffering from exhaustion) has gone off sailing in the North Sea ...

• Jan-2004
• / Action Adventure
• 

As this classic series continues, adventuring children off the western coast of Scotland spot a strange bird and soon land themselves in danger. While on a sailing cruise with Cap. Flint exploring in the Outer Hebrides, the Swallows, Amazons, and the...

• Dec-2004
• / Fantasy
• 

Choice collection of nine classic tales -- gathered by British author on his journeys to Russia in the early twentieth century -- tells of magical beasts, daring young men, frightful giants, wicked witches, and beguiling creatures of the sea. A d...

• Nov-2005
• / Fantasy
• 

Childless and sad, an old Russian man and his wife watch the village children playing in the snow. One day they decide to make their own little snow girl. Imagine their amazement when her eyes start to shine, her hair turns black and she comes ali...

• Nov-2005
• / Fantasy
• 

This is a book written far away in Russia, for English children who play in deep lanes with wild roses above them in the high hedges, or by the small singing becks that dance down the gray fells at home. Russian fairyland is quite different. Under my...

• Mar-2008
• / General Fiction
• 

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
• 

The classic English series begins with a tale of two families of children uniting against a common foe: an uncle who claims he’s too busy for his nieces. The Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger) are on school holiday in the Lake District ...

• Nov-2010
• / General Fiction
• 

A team of intrepid English children set sail for treasure in the Caribbean only to encounter pirates, sharks, and other dangers. It all begins when Peter Duck, an elderly sailor once marooned on an island in the Caribbean, tells a tale to the Swallow...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
• 

From the elegant typography and silhouetted endpapers to the twelve color plates and the addition of myriad decorative elements -- ornamental heads, initials, silhouettes, partial borders, and much more -- this hardcover edition is a unique prese...

• Dec-2011
• / General Fiction
• 

Russian folk culture is filled with magical stories for children; tales of witches and wizardry, perilous journeys, wise animals, frightful giants, and beautiful princesses. This choice collection presents six of the most popular tales. Some bear a r...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
• 

Spring always seems to begin on the morning that the Imp, in a bright pink nightgown, comes rushing into my room without knocking, and throws himself on my bed, with a sprig of almond blossom in his hand. You see, the almond blossom grows just outsid...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
• 

Pond and Stream by Arthur Ransome, author of “The Stone Lady”; Nature Books for Children; with illustrations by Frances Craine Copyright 1906 CONTENTSDedicationChapter 1. About the BookChapter 2. The Duck PondChapter 3. Stream and Ditc...

• Dec-2012
• / Action Adventure
• 

The last book in the series has the children sailing off the coast of Scotland in a desperate race to stop egg collectors who threaten the survival of some rare birds. ...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
• 

Gilbert, in 'The Critic as Artist, ' complains that "we are overrun by a set of people who, when poet or painter passes away, arrive at the house along with the undertaker, and forget that their one duty is to behave as mutes. But we won't talk about...

• Feb-2018
• / General Fiction
• 

RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES "Illustrated 18 Short Fairy Tales for Children" 1. The Magic Swan Geese 2. The Tale of Tsar Saltan 3. Emelya and the Pike 4. The Frog Tsarevna 5. Morozko 6. Twelve Months 7. Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf 8. Littl...

• / General Fiction
• 

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are wo...

• / General Fiction
• 

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• / Literary
• 

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• / General Fiction
• 

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.On August 27, 1914, in London, I made this note in a memorandum book: Met Arthur Ransome at's; discussed a book on the Russian's relation to the war in the light of psychological background �" folklore. The...

• / General Fiction
• 

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...