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Paperback
Published: 4th January 2002
Paperback
Published: 1st December 2014
Hardback
Published: 1st October 1989
The Big Six
By (Author) Arthur Ransome
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox
4th January 2002
6th September 2001
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.912
Paperback
400
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 25mm
277g
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. One of twelve Arthur Ransome titles reissued this month It's great detective work that's needed now. Bill, Peter and Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea and Tom Dudgeon are there to stand by their friends and they soon set to work to investigate the crimes and trap the real criminals
Mr Ransome again equals or perhaps excels himself - every boy will vote this detective story super * New Statesman *
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in l884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in l917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in l929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.