Posted by Magnus Smith on September 04, 2012 at 03:38:23 user Magnus.
Ransome never concentrated wholly on one character's point of view in his books, allowing the story to follow the Swallows for a few chapters, then show the Amazons elsewhere, etc. Standard stuff, but..
Chapter V of Coot Club begins with a paragraph from the pug's point of view: "William was not aboard the Teasel... He was annoyed to find some of her paint-brushes soaking in a jam-pot half full of turpentine... How careless people were."
Has any other author used the point of view of an animal in a story that is 99% about humans? These are not just external observations of a dog's actions, which we see elsewhere in the book.
Chapter XXVII has a much briefer insight into William's mind: "Dumped into sticky grey mud. Green slime, too. And after all this talk about wiping paws on the mat."
(The link below is just a cartoon that happened to remind me of this subject)