Re: Why "Swallows and Amazons Forever"?


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Posted by Dave Thewlis on November 01, 1996 at 18:16:03:

In Reply to: Why "Swallows and Amazons Forever"? posted by Adam Quinan on November 01, 1996 at 13:35:37:

Adam, here's all I know. In the mid to late 1980s the BBS produced filmed Coot Club and The Big Six and appears to have marketed them together as "Swallows & Amazons for Ever!". (When Janson got the rights to produce the films in the U.S. they carried on the designation.)

A couple of years ago Red Fox, which is Randome House Children's Books in the U.K., brought out a brand-new paperback series of the Ransome books. One of the offerings was "Swallows & Amazons for Ever!" which "contains abridged editions of Coot Club and The Big Six -- Two Books in One!"

I've never met the Red Fox books in person (but I picked up an advertising poster for the books at a TARS AGM two years ago) so I don't know whether there is an intentional link to the BBC series for that one curious double book, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me.

In any case the cry "Swallows and Amazons Forever" (or, in The U.K., "Swallows and Amazons for Ever") clearly has the name recognition, and virtually everybody thinks of the Ransome children's books as the "Swallows and Amazons" series. Me, I'm for anything which makes them more available. But I can't help but wondering who abridged them and why they thought it was such a good idea?!


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