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Pigeon post

Arthur Michell Ransome

1936336 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1936
first published
  • 1936Cape · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780224606363
  • 1937J. B. Lippincott Company · 349 pages · ENG
  • 1969Puffin · 382 pages · ENGISBN 9780140303933
  • 1983JONATHAN CAPE · 388 pages · ENGISBN 9780224021241
  • 1993RED FOX · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780099963400
  • 2001Penguin Random House · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780099427193
  • 2013Vintage Children's Classics · 448 pagesISBN 9780099582540
  • 1992David R Godine · 382 pages · ENGISBN 9780879238643

Pigeon Post is the 6th in the Swallows and Amazons series, and was the first winner of the Carnegie Medal, for the best children's book written by a British subject. The only book in the series that does not feature sailing, it's about mining on the Fells of the Lake district. Excellent descriptions of the use of homing pigeons to carry messages.

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Written forMiddle grade
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