Down Ryton Water
Down Ryton Water is a 1940 children's historical novel written by Eva [Roe Gaggin] and illustrated by Berta and [Elmer Hader|Elmer Hader]. It tells the story of the Separatists of Scrooby and the Pilgrim Fathers through the first-person narrative of young Matt Over.
The book received a Newbery Honor in 1941.
The New [York Times] praised the novel's richness and scope, overlooking its narrative dissonance – Matt, a boy, seemily has a feminine viewpoint.