There's three chapters about the Swallows and Amazons in Reading Series Fiction (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reading-Fiction-Arthur-Ransome-Gene/dp/041522702X/ref=sr_1_1/202-6967860-9325404?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182366160&sr=8-1) by Victor Watson, which seems to have increased in price hugely since I bought it - I'm sure I didn't pay nearly £22 for it. But it's very good, although it wasn't quite what I was expecting - it's an analysis of various series (Antonia Forest's Marlows are also studied) rather than a study of the act of reading series fiction.
There is also info on the books on Wikipedia, here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallows_and_Amazons_%28series%29), with various links, but I doubt it's in any great depth.
I tend to group AR's books into levels - my favourites are, in chronological order, S&A, Winter Holiday, Pigeon Post, We Didn't Mean to go to Sea, and The Picts and the Martyrs. Next are Swallowdale, Coot Club, Secret Water and The Big Six, and at the end and never reread are Peter Duck, Missee Lee and Great Northern? Winter Holiday is probably my absolute favourite. Or possibly WDMTGTS.
Secret Water is probably my least favourite of the ones I do read, I'm not sure exactly why (it's been a while since I did read it) but I think that all that map making gets a bit tedious after a while. It does have its moments - the journey back through the rising water, the North West passage - but overall it just doesn't do it for me.
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Date: 2007-06-20 07:17 pm (UTC)There is also info on the books on Wikipedia, here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallows_and_Amazons_%28series%29), with various links, but I doubt it's in any great depth.
I tend to group AR's books into levels - my favourites are, in chronological order, S&A, Winter Holiday, Pigeon Post, We Didn't Mean to go to Sea, and The Picts and the Martyrs. Next are Swallowdale, Coot Club, Secret Water and The Big Six, and at the end and never reread are Peter Duck, Missee Lee and Great Northern? Winter Holiday is probably my absolute favourite. Or possibly WDMTGTS.
Secret Water is probably my least favourite of the ones I do read, I'm not sure exactly why (it's been a while since I did read it) but I think that all that map making gets a bit tedious after a while. It does have its moments - the journey back through the rising water, the North West passage - but overall it just doesn't do it for me.