Posted by Wayne Hammond on April 23, 2000 at 13:16:45 from na-as52-1-16.bcn.net:
In Reply to: Re: Children's Hour posted by Margaret Ratcliffe on April 22, 2000 at 23:49:37:
That occurred to me too, Margaret; but Noel Streatfeild did win the Carnegie Medal herself only two years after Ransome, in 1938, and it was then ten years before the first broadcast of _Swallows and Amazons_ on _Children's Hour_ (it was done again in 1959). Whatever Streatfeild's own opinion might have been, her biographer, Angela Bull, favourably compares Streatfeild's stories with Ransome's -- children managing on their own without grown-ups, etc.
As for the production being a failure, there's no indication of it in Wallace Grevatt's book _BBC Children's Hour: A Celebration of Those Magical Years_. And by the time the BBC did _Swallows and Amazons_, they had already adapted other books in the series, so apparently were happy with the results.
Wayne