Posted by Elizabeth on April 06, 2008 at 18:30:38 from 24.22.112.169 user Elizabeth.
In Reply to: Re: A new post on the 'Great Northern?' blog posted by Duncan on April 06, 2008 at 11:52:07:
Sad--it does seem to be simply gone. How frustrating. I read it & enjoyed your theory about the sizes of the lakes implicating which one AR was using for the different stories. I relate that to where the children's minds are in each book. I see the lake as one conglomerate, with AR's liberal usage of sites from all over added in as needed. During S&A, which introduces "The Lake" to both us as readers & to the Swallows as characters, AR feeds us only the geography we need for the story, with hints of other places that are far away--not a part of the action in S&A. Swallowdale requires more geography, but still doesn't get us into the far north. Over time we slowly get to "see" more and more of "The Lake" and its environs. And over time AR had the joy of sharing with us his favorite places, in a fictional form.