Re: Vencejos y Amazonas!


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Posted by Robert Thompson on July 02, 1999 at 23:29:00 from tenor1.demon.co.uk:

In Reply to: Re: Vencejos y Amazonas! posted by Margaret Ratcliffe on July 02, 1999 at 18:48:22:

Some additional information about S & A in Spanish:
Vencejos y Amazonas was followed by Formidables aventuras en el Valle del Vencejo (Swallowdale). The title page of the latter has a line drawing of the last scene of the book when the Swallows and Amazons attack the island camp and the sleeping Captain Flint.
What is amazing about both books is that the illustrations, although not by AR, have been copied exactly from the AR originals (with a little broader brush/pen stroke - it's as if the Clifford Webb were combined with the AR drawings). Even the angles of the poses of the characters are the same.
How did they get away with it, especially as AR must have owned copies of these two books - there are examples in the Abbot Hall collection that Evgenia donated after AR's death?
With regard to early learning of Latin - I didn't come across the famous Missee Lee/Roger rhyme, but I do remember that our text book was called First Steps in Latin - easily modified by all to read First Steps in Eating. What a daft sense of humour we had!


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