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The four join together in their search for the siblings' parents in the chaos of Europe, immediately after the Second World War.

The fourth, Jan, is another of the many Warsaw war orphans who has somehow met their father and then fainted near the bombed-out basement that serves as the siblings' home. This brings to life the story of four refugee children, three of them siblings: Ruth, Edek, and Bronia. These were followed by several more adventure stories, including his best known work, The Silver Sword (1956). In 1946, he published his first two children's books: They Raced for Treasure, a story of sailing, treasure and spies, and Thomas and the Sparrow. Serraillier was a member of the Peace Pledge Union. As a Quaker he was granted conscientious objector status in World War II. Serraillier was educated at Brighton College and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and he taught English at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire from 1936 to 1939, at Dudley Grammar School in Worcestershire from 1939 to 1946, and at Midhurst Grammar School in West Sussex from 1946 to 1961. His father died as a result of the 1918 flu pandemic. He was the eldest of the four children of Lucien Serraillier (1886–1919) and Mary Kirkland Rodger (1883–1940). Serraillier was born in London on 24 September 1912.