Down Ryton Water (1940)

Down Ryton Water is a 1940 children's historical novel written by Eva Roe Gaggin and illustrated by 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.