The state-of-the-art Windermere Jetty Museum is gearing up for an event that promises to be a real treat for fans of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons children's stories, set mostly in the Lake District.

On Sunday 30 January at the museum, a group of around 30 people will be taking part a marathon reading of Ransome's Winter Holiday, an adventure tale where the children skate and sledge on the frozen lake and plan an expedition to the North Pole.

The event has been organised by the team that previously held marathon readings of Swallows and Amazons on the shore of Coniston, and Pigeon Post at the YHA Coppermines hostel.

Arthur Ransome's stories are synonymous with the Lake District, particularly Coniston Water and Windermere, the two lakes adapted as his fictional lake.

His family regularly holidayed at Nibthwaite in the Lake District, and he was carried up to the top of Coniston Old Man as an infant.

The event is free to attend, and will take place between 10am and 4pm.