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An Actor’s Life For Me

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Author(s):Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):T. R. Freeman
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Year Published: 1953
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
Boys Growing Up
Fiction - novel
Play
Sports - Field
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 184
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 504398154

Description

This book takes place after the events of The Islanders, Rough Water and Operation Wild Goose and deals with Nick’s doings at drama school.

Other Sequels

The Islanders (1950)

“A mile of river and five hundred acres of woodland” are turned over to Pat and his friends Toby and Nick for the summer holidays. This is the English first edition with illustrations by Margery Gill.

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Rough Water (1951)

Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Operation Wild Goose (1955)

The three Islanders, Pat, Nick and Toby, are on a salmon fishing expedition to Iceland when they stumble on a nest of spies.

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The Islanders (1956)

“A mile of river and five hundred acres of woodland” are turned over to Pat and his friends Toby and Nick for the summer holidays. This is the second English edition and first American edition with illustrations by Ernest Shepard.

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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