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{{infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = Coot Club
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| translator =
| image = [[Image:Coot Club cover.jpg|200px|photo of Jonathan Cape edition of Arthur Ransome's 1934 novel, Coot Club]]
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| author = [[Arthur Ransome]]
| cover_artist = [[Arthur Ransome]]
| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| series = [[Swallows and Amazons (series)|Swallows and Amazons]]
| genre = Children's books
| publisher = [[Jonathan Cape]]
| release_date = 1934
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages =
| isbn = ISBN 0-613-77232-6
| preceded_by = [[Winter Holiday (novel)|Winter Holiday]]
| followed_by = [[Pigeon Post]]
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'''''Coot Club''''' is the fifth book of [[Arthur Ransome]]'s [[Swallows and Amazons (series)|Swallows and Amazons]] series of children's books, published in 1934. The book sees Dick and Dorothea Callum visiting the [[Norfolk Broads]] during the Easter Holidays, eager to learn to sail and thus impress the Swallows and Amazons when they return to the [[Lake District]] later that year. Along with a cast of new characters, Dick and Dorothea explore the North and South Broads and become 'able seamen'.
==Plot summary==
The Callum children spend their Easter Holidays in [[Norfolk]] with a family friend, Mrs. Barrable, who is staying on a small yacht called the ''Teasel'', moored near the village of [[Horning]]. There they encounter the [[Coot]] Club, a gang of local children comprising Tom Dudgeon, twin girls 'Port' and 'Starboard' Farland, and three younger boys — Joe, Bill and Pete (the ''Death and Glories'').
A noisy and inconsiderate party of city-dwellers (dubbed the 'Hullabaloos' by the children) hire the motor cruiser ''Margoletta'' and threaten an important nesting site (one of many monitored by the Coots) by mooring in front of it. Despite warnings "not to mix with foreigners", Tom stealthily loosens the ''Margoletta'''s moorings to save the nest and hides behind the ''Teasel'' to save his father's reputation. Mrs. Barrable does not give Tom away to the Hullabaloos and instead asks him to teach the Callums to sail.
Tom, Port, and Starboard join the crew of the ''Teasel'', and together with Mrs. Barrable and her pug William, the children teach Dick and Dorothea the basics of sailing up and down [[the Broads]]. Dick shares the Coot Club's keen interest in the local birdlife, and Dorothea uses the voyage as fodder for her new story, "''Outlaw Of The Broads''" based on the Hullabaloos vow to catch Tom. They chase the crew of the ''Teasel'' all over the Broads, eventually managing to crash the ''Margoletta'' in the perilously tidal [[Breydon Water]] — necessitating a dramatic rescue by the Coots.
==Film, TV or theatrical adaptations==
[[BBC]] produced a film based on Coot Club in [[1984]]<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301909/ Swallows and Amazons Forever!: Coot Club (1984) (TV)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Footnotes==
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[[Category:1934 novels]]
[[Category:Adventure novels]]
[[Category:British novels]]
[[Category:Children's novels]]
[[Category:Swallows and Amazons series]]
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