Title: Winter holiday
First published: 1933
Description: This may be the best book in the Swallows and Amazons series, which means that it might be the best children's book ever written. The Swallows and Amazons are exploring the Arctic (the area around the lake) during winter vacation when they meet Dick and Dorothea Callum, staying at a farm on the lakeside. Skating, signalling, exploring, ice-boating, astronomy, everything a kid could ask for.
Subjects: Fiction, Outdoor life, Vacations, Winter, Children's fiction, Winter, fiction, Outdoor life, fiction, Vacations, fiction, Swallows (Fictitious characters), Juvenile fiction, Amazons (Fictitious characters : Ransome), Christmas, fiction
Places: Great Britain, Lake district.
Time periods: 1934