What is your favourite book after 'Swallows and Amazons' by Arthur Ransome?

[Lorna]

We have them all in storage so I don't want to buy more than one at a time. It is for ds and he likes things in a logical order (unlike dd who I can throw books at in any order :))
Many thanks in advance!

[Melissa B]

Swallowdale is the second book, followed by Peter Duck.

[Eliana]

When we read through the series, we skip Peter Duck and Missee Lee and do them at the end (they are stories made up by the Swallows and Amazons about themselves.). We also do Coot Club and The Big Six (which have the Callum kids up on the Norfolk Broads) together at the end right before the metafictional pair.

The published order, with the Norfolk Broads stories in green and the metafictional ones in pink:


Swallows and Amazons

Swallowdale

Peter Duck

Winter Holiday

Coot Club

Pigeon Post

We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea

Secret Water

The Big Six

Missee Lee

The Picts And The Martyrs

Great Northern?

Coots in the North (incomplete - and very rough, the kids haven't read it at all)Eliana

[5wolfcubs]

Thanks for this list, Eliana! I read Swallows and Amazons aloud a few years ago -- and wanted to get a little sailboat and send my children off!! It was such a wonderful story! :)

[Lorna]

Thank you! I will order Swallowdale . I am buying so many doubles of books I am trying to buy just one at a time.

[Lorna]

Eliana,
That is such a wonderful list and exactly what I needed, thank you!