![]() ![]() John, the eldest, takes with him The Seaman’s Handybook and Part Three of The Baltic Pilot, whilst Susan chooses Simple Cooking for Small Households. ![]() ![]() Titty, for instance, has read Robinson Crusoe enough to have memorised passages from it, and she uses it as a guide when she’s left alone on the island. Books can be taken outside – in fact, for the Walker children, books seem to belong outside. ![]() Susan, Roger, Tatty and John bring the Swallow to shore on Wild Cat Island CREDIT: STUDIO CANAL There’s an irony, then, in using a screen to represent the Walker children’s Lakeland exploits it encourages children to stay inside to access the outside. That is the tension at the heart of this film: it is an indoor activity about the wonders of the outside world, as seen through children’s eyes. She is also ‘aware of how childhood now revolves around screens, sitting on your bottoms and being indoors. The film’s director, Philippa Lowthorpe, was drawn to the project because Ransome’s book is about ‘getting out into the world of your own imagination’. The film, like the book on which it’s based, tells the story of the four Walker children – John, Susan, Titty (renamed Tatty in the film) and Roger – and their adventures on and around a Cumbrian lake. On July 24 this year, the new film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s children’s classic Swallows and Amazons (first published in 1930, and set in summer 1929) had its world premiere at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, one of the more frequently-visited towns in the Lake District National Park. ![]()
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