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The Islanders
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| Author(s): | Roland Pertwee |
| Illustrator(s): | Ernest H. Shepard |
| Publisher(s): | Oxford University Press The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. |
| Year Published: | 1956 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Adventure Boys Growing Up Fiction - Novel Holidays |
| Age Range: | Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 267 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 1476623 |
Description
“A mile of river and five hundred acres of woodland” are turned over to Pat and his friends Toby and Nick for the summer holidays. This is the second English edition and first American edition with illustrations by Ernest Shepard.
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The Islanders (1950)
“A mile of river and five hundred acres of woodland” are turned over to Pat and his friends Toby and Nick for the summer holidays. This is the English first edition with illustrations by Margery Gill.
Other Sequels
Rough Water (1951)
Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”
An Actor’s Life For Me (1953)
This book takes place after the events of The Islanders, Rough Water and Operation Wild Goose and deals with Nick’s doings at drama school.
Operation Wild Goose (1955)
The three Islanders, Pat, Nick and Toby, are on a salmon fishing expedition to Iceland when they stumble on a nest of spies.
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Tom is a sixteen-year-old street tough, left to fend for himself by his worthless father, Bill Slade, after wealthy landowner John Temple evicts them. Tom scorns the Boy Scout movement, as does Temple and his effeminate son Wilfred. Because of his interest in Temple’s daughter Mary, Tom gets a job and joins the Scouts after seeing that they are as strong and tough as he.
Mr. Petersand’s Cats (and Kittens) (1954)
Every summer the families who return to Firefly Island go to Mr. Petersand to adopt a cat or kitten for the summer.
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