Posted by Andy on April 05, 2010 at 05:53:46 user AndyG.
In Reply to: Top 20 Children's Books posted by Mike Dennis on April 04, 2010 at 00:25:47:
Granted there were only about 70 words in which to write a précis for SA, but this is factually incorrect (the Blacketts believe their Uncle to be a retired pirate? They hatch a plan?) and sounds - well - as dull as ditchwater:
Inspired by a summer spent teaching his friends’ children to sail, Ransome’s tale of Lakeland adventures follows the Walker and Blackett children. Meeting one summer on Wildcat Island, the children form an alliance against the Blacketts’ irritable Uncle Jim, whom they believe to be a retired pirate. After days spent sailing, camping and fishing, the allies hatch a plan to seize Uncle Jim’s houseboat and force him to walk the plank.