![]() ![]() Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. In the 'Backstory' you can learn to decipher Nancy's Morse code and find out about the real life inspirations for Missee Lee Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Separated, captured, miles from home, the Swallows and Amazons are about to meet their fate and the pirate who holds it: the legendary Missee Lee. ![]() ![]() But when Gibber, the ship's monkey, accidentally sinks their faithful boat things take a serious turn for the worse. Presenting The Big Six (1940) and Missee Lee (1941), two novels from Arthur Ransomes noted childrens adventure series, Swallows and Amazons. They are on a round-the-world voyage aboard the Wild Cat and it's been plain sailing for a hundred ports. Two books, Peter Duck and Missee Lee, and possibly also Great Northern, are metafictional, being fictional stories of the protagonists voyages to exotic lands, as imagined by the fictional protagonists. ![]() 'Don't run into Missee Lee!' The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint don't pay much heed to the harbourmaster's friendly warning as they set off for China. MISSEE LEE written by Arthur Ransome illustrated by Arthur Ransome published by Jonathan Cape (STOCK CODE: 805037) for sale by Stella & Roses Books. Two other books are set in Suffolk and Essex around the River Orwell, though one involves a trip across the North Sea to Holland. ![]()
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