Pigeon Post
  • Published: 2 April 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099582540
  • Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $24.99

Pigeon Post

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7 Mar 2013
EBook
30 Jun 2011
Paperback
2 Apr 2013
Paperback
7 Dec 2001
Hardback
1 Oct 1989
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WINNER OF THE FIRST EVER CARNEGIE MEDAL IN 1936.

‘Barbecued billygoats!’

Can you imagine finding gold? That’s just what the Swallows and Amazons and Dick and Dorothea decide to hunt for in the hills high above the lake. But it’s a hot and dry summer and water is in scarce supply. Worse still for the troubled campers, they have competition: Squashy Hat. Anybody can see he is a prospector. And talk about squashy hats! The children have never seen squashier. Just who is he and what sort of traps is he laying? Using pigeons to carry messages, braving dangerous mines and fires, the Swallows, Amazons and D’s Mining Company must stake their claim before their dreaded rival...

Includes exclusive material: In ‘The Backstory’ you can test your knowledge of the book and learn all about homing pigeons!

Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
  • Published: 2 April 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099582540
  • Imprint: Vintage Children's Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, 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 1929, 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.

Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.

Also by Arthur Ransome

Swallows and Amazons
Reunion
Peter Duck
Swallowdale
Winter Holiday
Coot Club
We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
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Praise for Pigeon Post

A truly wonderful book by a gifted and now unforgivably neglected children's writer

Times Educational Supplement

In its own class, and wearing several gold stars for distinction. Pigeon Post stands head and shoulders above the average adventure book for and of children

The Times

There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun in connection with a gold-mine. The ingenuity of this group of children is delightful and stimulating

Times Literary Supplement
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