Pigeon Post

But it’s a hot and dry summer and water is in scarce supply. Worse still for the troubled campers, they have competition: Squashy Hat. Anybody can see he is a prospector. And talk about squashy hats!

The children have never seen squashier. Just who is he and what sort of traps is he laying? Using pigeons to carry messages, braving dangerous mines and fires, the Swallows, Amazons and D’s Mining Company must stake their claim before their dreaded rival…

Backstory: you can test your knowledge of the book and learn all about homing pigeons!

More Titles from Author:

The Picts and the Martyrs
Great Northern?
Missee Lee
The Big Six
Secret Water
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea
Coot Club
Pigeon Post
Winter Holiday
Swallowdale
Swallows and Amazons

Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian.

After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children’s literature of all time.