There is now an enthusiastic Introduction by Philip Pullman in which, after acknowledging the ommissions in the book, he claims that 'anyone who actually makes a practice of telling stories will recognize at once that Ransome knows what he's talking about'. Pullman end with a comment which is perceptive and surely true: 'This is the sort of book that could never be written today, and so much the more lucky we are in having it'. (Mixed moss, 2021).