A Winter Holiday

A Winter Holiday
by Bliss Carman

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There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating. --T.L.S.

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The story is the best kind of adventure story. . . Every step is possible, and everyone is transmuted into romance by deliberate purpose. Nothing that the children do is beyond the reach of a group provided that winter, a frozen lake and mumps connive to perfect adventure. --Observer

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?There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating.? ?TLS

?He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure. --Observer

Review
?There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating.? ?TLS

?He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure.? ?Observer

Product Description
The fourth book in Arthur Ransome's classic series for children, Winter Holiday takes intrepid explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker, and fearsome Amazon pirates Nancy and Peggy Blackett to the North Pole. Joined by budding novelist Dorethes Callum and her scientist brother Dick, the children plan an "Arctic" expedition. But unforseen events seperate the travelers and disaster nearly strikes in the exciting climax of their race to the Pole.

Card catalog description
Follows the adventures of two groups of children who spend a winter holiday by a great lake next to the mountains.

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“There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating.” –TLS

“He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure.” –Observer

From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author
Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children s literature of all time.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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