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The Secret Island - Enid Blyton

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dalek · 19/11/2007 20:44

We have just finished reading this and DD loved it- does anybody know if there are any more in the series?

TIA

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Lizzer · 24/01/2008 14:48

oh and thanks for the link, wheresthehamster

Lizzer · 24/01/2008 14:46

21 and a lot of guesses too. I'm better at st. clare's though and its hardly mentioned! Dd (8) has just got into st. clares and has loved SS and F5 for a couple of years now...

We're reading the Ship of Adventure together too, oh how i love doing kiki the parrot's voice!

I'm seriously so pleased dd is into this along with her regular girly things like HSM and bratz and the like, she never thinks its 'old fashioned'.

Bink · 24/01/2008 14:41

Nicking stories ... EB lifted that African eclipse dénouement STRAIGHT out of Rider Haggard. And there's stuff half-inched out of Riders of the Purple Sage, & all sorts. Should think there's a whole industry of EB's plagiarising.

But in her case I think it doesn't count like that at all, because what she's there for is to make a bridge/ease the passage into proper challenging reading - so if her easy-access writing gives you some advance knowledge of what you're going to find in the real stuff, that's not so bad.

Blu · 24/01/2008 14:27

Scored 27 - and most were guesses.

Joekate · 24/01/2008 14:15

I went through an Enid phase with my son when he was 5. He got into the habbit of calling me "Mother" and being really polite. Didn't last though! Secret Island was my favorite when I was little and then the Secret Castle. And Mallory (sp?) Towers.

ernest · 25/11/2007 18:28

bookofthedeadmum, the secret island was published in 1938, Lord of the flies in 1954.

So Golding clearly nicked his ideas from good old Enid

ernest · 25/11/2007 18:26

The secret island was my favourite book as a kid. I must've read it dozens of times

VintageGardenia · 25/11/2007 18:16

Also The Children Who Lived in a Barn.

VintageGardenia · 25/11/2007 18:15

Funny I have just finished reading The Secret Island with my 9-year-old and he absolutely LOVED it. There was a list in the back of all the others, all of which I remembered, but when we went to the bookshop today they didn't have any of them, just FF and SS and the Adventure ones. My DS loves anything which involves children living without adults (hmm, can't think why...) so I am thinking of getting him Pippi Longstocking.

I remember thinking the Secret of Moon Castle was INCREDIBLY spooky.

MrsBadger · 20/11/2007 09:55

oh mine too

the willow house...

Fennel · 20/11/2007 09:54

I got 27 on that quiz.

Prunie · 20/11/2007 09:52

Ooh I'm going all tingly
THe Secret Island was my favourite book for a long time
Sigh

Fennel · 20/11/2007 09:41

For a 5-7 year old I'd recommend the Faraway tree series and the Secret Seven - I used to read those when I was about 6. The Secret Seven is quite homely, they spend most of their time eating buns in the shed.

Orinoco · 19/11/2007 21:35

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bookofthedeadmum · 19/11/2007 21:31

Heated, I don't remember that one. Sounds like EB was copying a bit of Lord of the Flies with that. Be interesting to see when each one was published.

The Ring o'Bells mystery gave me nightmares - the idea of bells ringing on their own and a submerged secret tunnel were enough to set my imagination roaming .

Desiderata · 19/11/2007 21:31

Blimey, that's a bit sloppy. How are people supposed to bid when they don't know the publishing date?

Still, they look in good enough nick. If you can secure that lot for under a tenner you'll be laughing.

wheresthehamster · 19/11/2007 21:28

Old set of Secret books on Ebay

Orinoco · 19/11/2007 21:26

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bookofthedeadmum · 19/11/2007 21:25

I always found Jack and Barney (different series) to be rather reassuring. Julian was a bit too mc for me.

Heated · 19/11/2007 21:24

Bookofthedeadmum, is that the one where Jack is worshipped as a God, they eat lots of exotic fruit and they almost get sacrificed?

Desiderata · 19/11/2007 21:24

Oh, dear. I only got 21 out of 50.

Mind you, I haven't read an Enid Blyton book for bloody years.

Heated · 19/11/2007 21:23

The first ones I read were the Famous Five at about 6-7 years old. The EB stories I found most frightening were the Faraway Tree since you never knew whether was going to be nice or scarey and there was always the danger of being left behind once the world at the top of the tree moved on, whilst there was always security in the FF adventures that the bad guy would get outwitted by Julian and the daring George.

bookofthedeadmum · 19/11/2007 21:21

Pilscu? Something odd anyway.

bookofthedeadmum · 19/11/2007 21:21

20/50!!!!!!!

Mind some of those books I'm sure I haven't read. .

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