With the Ransome books, he fits quite a lot of them into one year, Winter holiday, Coots club,Pigeon Post,We didn't mean to go to sea, Secret water and Big Six all happen in one year. Peter Duck and Missee Lee only happen in the children's imagination. So the characters develop to an extent and there are small changes, but it was probably a lot easier to keep book time and external time not too different. The Lone Pine books, which I also enjoyed as a child, had the same sort of characters aging slightly, but set in contemporary settings solution to a long series that the Marlow books have, starting during WW2 and going into the 1960s or perhaps 1970s with the characters aging perhaps 6 years in all, but they don't bear rereading in the way that Arthur Ransome's books or Antonia forest's do, at least in my view.
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Re: Re: Rowan's decision
Date: 2014-07-27 09:20 pm (UTC)The Lone Pine books, which I also enjoyed as a child, had the same sort of characters aging slightly, but set in contemporary settings solution to a long series that the Marlow books have, starting during WW2 and going into the 1960s or perhaps 1970s with the characters aging perhaps 6 years in all, but they don't bear rereading in the way that Arthur Ransome's books or Antonia forest's do, at least in my view.