Arthur Ransome
(1884 - 1967)
Arthur Michell Ransome (January 18, 1884 – June 3, 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; fishing and camping are other common subjects. The books remain popular and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.
Bibliography
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1920)
A retelling of the Arabian night in verse by the author of Swallows and Amazons. Read for free online at HathiTrust. Or at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Thomas Mackenzie
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (2009)
A new telling of the Arabian night in verse by the author of Swallows and Amazons.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Thomas Mackenzie
The Big Six (1940)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
The Big Six (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Coot Club (1934)
When the Hullabaloos moor right on top of the coots’ nest, what choice had Tom Dudgeon but to cast their motor boat adrift? Dot and Dick help the outlaw elude his pursuers.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Coot Club (1935)
When the Hullabaloos moor right on top of the coots’ nest, what choice does Tom Dudgeon of the Bird Protection Society have but to set their motorboat adrift? Dot and Dick help the outlaw elude his pursuers.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Arthur Ransome
Coots in the North and Other Stories (1988)
A fragment of a thirteenth Swallows and Amazons adventure where the Death and Glories travel to the lake.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Hilda Trefusis
Great Northern? (1947)
The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are cruising in the Hebrides with Captain Flint, when Dick discovers a nesting pair of loons, or great northern divers - but an egg blowing bird-man is also on their track.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Great Northern? (1948)
The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are cruising in the Hebrides with Captain Flint, when Dick discovers a nesting pair of loons, or great northern divers - but an egg blowing bird-man is also on their track.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Missee Lee (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Missee Lee (1942)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint are sailing around the world when they have to abandon ship off the coast of China. When they are captured by a female Chinese pirate, they end up forming a makeshift prep school.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
My Bookhouse: Up One Pair of Stairs (1920)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Various
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Et al
Old Peter’s Russian Tales (1916)
A collection of Russian folktales. Read online at Hathitrust.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Dmitri Mitrokhin
Old Peter’s Russian Tales (1938)
A collection of Russian folktales. Includes a new Prefatory Note by the author. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Dmitri Mitrokhin
Old Peter’s Russian Tales (1971)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Faith Jaques
Old Peter’s Russian Tales (1974)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Faith Jaques
Peter Duck (1932)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint sail in search of treasure and must fight not only a hurricane but also pirates.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Peter Duck (1933)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint sail in search of treasure and must fight not only a hurricane but also pirates.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Arthur Ransome
The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab, and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome at All (1943)
Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
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