Enid Blyton ~ the Adventurous Four Again
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In 1947, rationing was all the same on, but this is a kid's fantasy book, so in that location is plenty of food, copious amounts all the fourth dimension. The children (well, pre-teens and teens) are let to become off on m adventures on their own, with no pesky
Enid Blyton is a famous children'due south author from some years agone. When I saw this volume in a secondhand book shop, I picked it upwards to read so I could finally grab some of the references about her. This book was first published in 1947, and this copy was printed in 1977.In 1947, rationing was withal on, but this is a kid'southward fantasy book, and so there is plenty of food, copious amounts all the time. The children (well, pre-teens and teens) are let to get off on grand adventures on their own, with no pesky adults underfoot. And this is the story of an adventure these iv friends have, entirely past accident, of course. (view spoiler)[When they get home, their parents are quite worried, but they're and so glad that they're home rubber, that that trumps everything else. Like I said, a fantasy. (hide spoiler)]
Information technology was more often than not well-written: my middle was certainly in my throat in a couple of scenes! (Thinking, "Will the bad guys grab them now?") The bad guys were unbelievably stupid on at to the lowest degree a couple of occassions, so it lost some of the magic there. I know it's a children's book, but still - children practice have brains. Information technology is nearly timeless; yous exercise need to know that rationing was on (it is referenced in the book, but just in passing once or twice), simply that'south all.
All in all, a pretty expert book! I definitely see why she was and then pop.
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It also struck me how often and how much the four ate in a precarious survival state of affairs
Fairly entertaining in places, but overall a very familiar story that Enid Blyton has written more than once, improve than this and with much more defined and interesting characters. Information technology'south peculiarly annoying that the plot of this book relies heavily and frequently on i or more of the central quartet beingness unimaginably stupid. Tom was idiotic enough in their outset chance, only this time he's surpassed himself!Information technology too struck me how oft and how much the four ate in a precarious survival state of affairs i.e. too much and often even for an Enid Blyton adventure. Not but that but they have far too much to say about how their food and drinkable gustatory modality, fifty-fifty at times lamenting a lack of condiments. I don't feel that Enid really had much of a grip on these characters or their adventures; I am not surprised that she didn't write about them over again after this.
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In that location definitely were a couple of things that bugged me (once again, at that place'due south a moment where someone is judged purely on looks!) merely overall I had a great time reading this novel and loved the characters.
Some other truly enjoyable novel by Enid Blyton.There definitely were a couple of things that bugged me (once once again, in that location's a moment where someone is judged purely on looks!) but overall I had a great time reading this novel and loved the characters.
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(23 July 2013)
Well, I think I have at present sampled all of the groups of child detectives/adventurers that I have of Enid Blyton (though I am sure there may be more, but I am not really going to go out of my mode to locate whatever other Blyton Books that I don't take in my collection). This grouping consists of two boys and two girls though the girls don't really play an agile part in the story. They seem to be more along for the ride and to human action as the d
This time Andy and Tom are up against gun smugglers(23 July 2013)
Well, I think I accept now sampled all of the groups of kid detectives/adventurers that I accept of Enid Blyton (though I am certain at that place may be more than, but I am non really going to get out of my fashion to locate any other Blyton Books that I don't take in my collection). This group consists of two boys and two girls though the girls don't actually play an active part in the story. They seem to be more forth for the ride and to act as the damsels in distress. As for the two boys, Tom and Andy, it appears that Andy pretty much takes the centre phase while Tom tags along to keep Andy visitor. In fact a majority of the book revolves effectually Tom and Andy making their way through a network of caves.
The bad guys seem to exist a chip nastier in these books and the children (if nosotros tin call them children as they are actually teenagers, not that the concept of the teenager had been adult at the time of writing) are a lot more than isolated than in other books of Blyton that I have read. This is the second adventure where they are trapped, this time forth what seems to be some very rugged Scottish coastline. In the first volume they were trapped on an isle and had uncovered a plot involving a fleet of u-boats. In this 1 they uncover a sophisticated gun smuggling dissonance, which also differs from other books I read since this seems into involve enemy governments and organised crime. The other books seem to only involve little thugs (not saying that the two antagonists in this book are more than than thugs).
Information technology was an enjoyable, and somewhat quick, read, but so again I can get through about Blyton books in a twenty-four hours, if I set bated nigh of the 24-hour interval to read them that is. Every bit I also mentioned, the main character in this book appears to be Andy. He is a very cunning private who works equally a fisherman with his father. He doesn't go to school, unlike the rest of the characters in this book, though their private school education does not seem to prove through. I too noticed that with this book the children are trapped longer than what their parents expected them to be away, where as near of the other books the mystery is solved and the children freed in less than one-half a day.
The terminal chapter was pretty ordinary with the colonel coming and explaining in very simple terms what had happened. The simply thing that I didn't empathize was that I thought guns where tightly controlled in England, where as it seems in this book that England (or at to the lowest degree Scotland) is being used as a staging identify to smuggle guns elsewhere. Besides the mode they captured the head guy was very dubious. The merely clue they had was a button, and they identified the head guy because the shirt he was wearing was missing a push button. In reality, that is what is chosen circumstantial show, and 1 slice of circumstantial evidence will not convict anybody.
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Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897 - 1968) was an English author of children's books.
Built-in in Due south London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early involvement in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich
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Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897 - 1968) was an English author of children'due south books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of 3 children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for 5 years earlier her 1924 spousal relationship to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had 2 daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second hubby.
Blyton was a prolific author of children'due south books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous V, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare'due south.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth well-nigh pop author in the world in 2007, coming afterward Lenin simply ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
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