the temporary tenant of Folly Grange "Guns" Kelly, the admiral's man, a former gunner Bos'n Jake, a Swedish ex-whaler who runs a ship chandler's-cum-junk shop in Darnley Mills near the river Mr Ramsgill, Arthur's father, a moorland sheep farmer Mrs Ramsgill, Arthur's mother Annie Ramsgill, Arthur's sister Animals Fo'c'sle, the admiral's dog, an Alsatian Captain, Mr Ramsgill's hunter, ridden by Arthur and David Rob, Arthur's sheepdog Augustus, Miss Cadell-Twitten's cock pheasant Themes and literary significance The novel has been commended for its sense for community and realistic character portrayal, as well as for being a very funny story. In a 1972 history of British children's novels since World War II, Marcus Crouch summarises, "The Grange at High Force is about bikes and boats, gunpowder, Norman architecture, eighteenth-century social history, birds, ballistics. It is an unpromising hotchpotch but it works". Its unlikely mix of subject-matter, its juxtaposition of the comic and the serious, the characters' forthright approach to work, play and peril, are all "part of the absorbing business of living". Illustrations The first edition was illustrated by the pen-and-ink sketches of William Papas, an artist known for his newspaper cartoons. Crouch deprecates the lively caricatures because Turner's fictional characters, although amusing, are not the figures of fun Papas depicts. The US edition was illustrated by Wilton T. Mars in a more conventional style. See also References External links —immediately, first US edition British children's novels Carnegie Medal in Literature winning works Novels set in England 1965 British novels 1965 children's books Oxford University Press books