Six Canoe To France

Eric and Roy were already looking forward to their holiday, and that was before the adventure even started - an adventure with pirates, smugglers, onions and most importantly new friends. The sort of new friends who didn't mind about Roy ...
Hoorah!

Jack had been canoeing with the school in the Lake District, but there hadn't been any waves like this.
The biggest danger on Windermere was people skimming stones from the shore. One of the boys in his dormitory, Titch McEwan, had been hit on the head by an eight-bouncer and knocked unconscious. He had flipped over and drowned before anyone had a chance to reach him.
The rest of that year there had been an empty bed in the dorm.
Empty, that is, except for Titch's favourite toy on the pillow - a penguin called Red Rum.
A curious and surreal romp through the world of six deluded and at times borderline psychotic children - welcome to the world of The Splendid Six.