http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/05/24/top-100-childrens-novels-58-swallows-and-amazons-by-arthur-ransome/ A School Library Journal Blog Thu, 23 May 2013 20:11:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/05/24/top-100-childrens-novels-58-swallows-and-amazons-by-arthur-ransome/#comment-779306 Louise Thu, 31 May 2012 14:13:13 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=13052#comment-779306 I have had so many people recommend this book to me as an adult, and I still can't figure out how I never discovered it when I was a kid. Shocking lack in my childhood libraries! It's actually still hard to find - none of the libraries I've frequented since moving away from home (five so far) have had it. Sad! I have had so many people recommend this book to me as an adult, and I still can’t figure out how I never discovered it when I was a kid. Shocking lack in my childhood libraries! It’s actually still hard to find – none of the libraries I’ve frequented since moving away from home (five so far) have had it. Sad!

]]> http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/05/24/top-100-childrens-novels-58-swallows-and-amazons-by-arthur-ransome/#comment-772386 heather Thu, 24 May 2012 14:15:29 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=13052#comment-772386 They made a musical of Swallows and Amazons!! Nice! Read this book for the first time after it made the first list and loved it! Not for the first time I'm wishing I lived in England... They made a musical of Swallows and Amazons!! Nice! Read this book for the first time after it made the first list and loved it! Not for the first time I’m wishing I lived in England…

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