Swallows and Amazons

The Swallows and Amazons series is a series of twelve children's books by English author Arthur Ransome. The twelve books are set in the Interwar period and involve adventures by groups of children, mostly during the school holidays and mostly in England. The stories revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. • Swallows and Amazons (1930) • Swallowdale (1931) • Peter Duck (1932) • Winter Holiday (1933) • Coot Club (1934) • Pigeon Post (1936) • We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (1937) • Secret Water (1939) • The Big Six (1940) • Missee Lee (1941) • The Picts and the Martyrs (1943) • Great Northern? (1947) • Coots in the North (unfinished at the time of Ransome's 1967 death, edited by Hugh Brogan and sections published in an unfinished form in 1988 with some other short works)