Children\u2019s fantasy adventure with magic model boat and Ramses II I\u2019m looking for a children\u2019s book. Set in Britain, I think in the 1930s, and written then. Basic plot starts with a boy discovering a strange \u2018antiques\u2019 shop in a seaside town. In it is a model boat \/ ship, I think of a Viking longboat, which he acquires. Boat becomes a means to various time travel adventures to the past for boy and his family (brother & sister, or were they cousins?) which an adventure in ancient Egypt that involved rescuing Pharaoh Ramses II from an ambush by the Hittites at the Battle of Kaddish, visiting a medieval castle and later bringing back the daughter of the castle to \u2018modern\u2019 England \u2013 she is terrified by a motor car she thinks is a dragon. One other plot point. The boy tries to find the shop again once he discovers the boat is magic but cannot. But some time later does find it and knows he has to give up \/ return the magic boat model. I know I read it as child (1950s) but only came to mind when I came across a little Viking longboat model in a curio shop. Nice model, but not magic! Many thanks for any pointers.<\/tt><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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