Reading series fiction : from Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp / by Watson, Victor

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a room full of friends; Innocence aboard: Swallows and Amazons; A fellowship of innocence; The storm before the calm; Nancy Blackett champion of goodness; Series galore; Camping and tramping fiction, 1920 1960; The great Nanny-Narrator and the children of the War; Malcolm Saville: the price paid; Fantasy; The Borrowers: brief encounters and a little air; Watching passionately: Lucy Boston and the Green Knowe series; The sun inside the window, shining out: The Dark Is Rising quintet; In and out of school.…”
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