Secret Water
A Fiction, Adventure, Childrens book. Let's be a little bit picky. The new characters don't...
'You’ll start with a blank map, that doesn’t do more than show roughly what’s water and what isn’t’When the Walker family’s holiday plans are ruined by Daddy having to work, the whole summer seems lost at sea. But a dull holiday for the children is too miserable to bear so their parents hatch a plan. The Swallows are to be marooned on an island with only a blank map and a little sailing dinghy. Their task? To explore and chart the area, avoid the endless mud and survive. And what do they discover? Well, they might not be as alone as they first thought…Includes exclusive content: In the 'Backstory' you can find out about some real life explorers!Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 544 pages
- ISBN: 9780099589365 / 99589362
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This book is not quite as adventurous as some of the other Swallow and Amazon books, but it is very good. There is excitement and danger and no adults nearby. Lots of friendship and warring and good fun. The Swallows are marooned on a "desert island" where there are savages ("the eels") and friends (the Amazons) and given a mission--to... Let's be a little bit picky. The new characters don't really get the vivid treatment we're used to in the series. Even Nancy seems a little subdued. Great additions are Bridget Walker, now old enough to take part, and Mastodon, the local boy. The excitement is there, but perhaps a bit too technical. The cause is not quite up to the... Eighth of the Swallows & Amazons series, and my least favorite: no D's, no Coots, and the new lot of children who replace them are (with one exception) nowhere near as engaging. Still a good read, though.
