Product: Swallows & Amazons: Coot Club [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
Coot Club & The Big Six -- first-rate videos for 6 - 10
These are charming stories, among the better ones that Ransome wrote, and the video productions are excellent and very faithful to the books.Grownups may see a certain "Masterpiece theatre" english period-piece air to them. Kids addicted to wham-bam cartoons may find them slow-moving. But the stories have Ransome's wonderful ingredients of families of kids having real sailing adventures together, strong roles for girls, enough action (these are the more action-filled of Ransome's stories) to satisfy all but the jaded, and plots that don't disturb parents. One of the things I like about Ransome's stories is that the kids don't take foolish risks as a device to move the plot.