Jon Tucker’s breezy Ransome-inspired Those Kids books are all about showing that modern youngsters can still find adventure camping and sailing when their parents give them a little trust and freedom – and now they’re available from the Nancy Blackett Shop.
Set in various locations around the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, they follow broadly the same group of characters. There are plenty of Ransome references, for those who like to spot them, but Jon has his own storytelling style, and these are modern kids, in a modern society, mobile phones and all!
Jon himself is a Kiwi ex-teacher who, with his wife Barbara, live aboard their ketch New Zealand Maid.
There are four titles so far, with a fifth due out later this month. All are available from the Nancy Blackett Shop here, at £10 each.
Great Summer Holiday reading!
Those Snake Island Kids
Meet Jake, Jess and Fin, and their cousins Tania and Zac. Pirate fantasies with a home-built dinghy get overtaken by real-life perils. “An uplifting tale of youthful naivety, friendship, calamity and triumph”.
Those Shipwreck Kids
The discovery of a hastily-abandoned campsite presents the Kids with a mystery that has an underlying environmental twist.
Those Eco-Pirate Kids
Trouble follows when Fin, who loves fishing, discovers an illegal net full of undersized fish, and decides to take action.
Those Sugar-Barge Kids
When Jake, Jess and Fin encounter two initially-hostile home-educated live-aboard sisters in an mangrove swamp it sets the scene for one of their more unusual adventures.
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