![]() ![]() ‘Owl Hoot’, was one item, ‘wisle’ (sic) another. Underneath, I’d noted down the skills I would need to acquire before playing the part of Titty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kaye Webb, the editor, had written an introduction saying, ‘This book is about sailing, fishing, swimming, camping, and piratical exploits.’ She wanted to make it available to children, thinking that discovering Swallows and Amazons ‘for the first time must be as exciting as a Christmas morning.’ I must have re-read this copy when busy preparing for filming the 1974 movie financed by EMI. It is a 1970’s edition in which I’d underlined everything Titty said. I dug out the Puffin paperback of Swallows and Amazons my father gave me when I was a girl and read avidly, along with other books in the series, by the time I was eleven years-old. ~Captain Flint hanging Christmas decorations around his houseboat on a card made from a Puffin book cover~ I have just been sent this homemade card from someone who came to the premier of the original film in 1974, when I was fortunate enough to play Able seaman Titty. The school term is over, ‘Swallows and Amazons’ is on BBC iPlayer and Christmas missives are arriving in the post. ![]()
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