Let's hear it for Swallows and Amazons! There is a book that made my brothers and sister and me learn to sail and started my love for the Lake District. Who is your favourite character? Mine is Titty; I have always identified with her, partly because like her I am the second girl in a family of four children (Vicky/Bridget doesn't really count in the early books). However, I think it is the day-dreaming, the planning of adventures and way she feels responsible when alone with Roger that really does it.