Children ran away to live on an island?

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Anyone know what book this is? Read it as a child, English children ran off & lived on an island.

Arthur Ransom Swallows and Amazons?

Could be The Secret Island by Enid Blyton. Was there a cow involved?

I was going to say swallows and Amazon’s too!
Or a famous five or secret seven Enid blyton book

The Secret Island. I was telling DS about that book the other day.

They don't run away in Swallows and Amazons.

Lord of the flies ?
The boys we're stranded though , didn't run off

It's the secret island by Enid Blyton. Did they make a summer home by building a house in the trees, did they make a winter home in the caves. Did Jack go across to the mainland and get a cow and make it swim back to shore.

Something by Enid Blyton? There’s an Enid Blyton thread running ATM, full of enthusiasts, they are sure to know!

The secret island.
Jack. Nora. Peggy and someone?
I re-read it last week.
They take chickens and a cow called Daisy

The secret island by Enid Blyton. I read that book over and over when I was younger :) x

Oh I love it when in the time it takes me to type a reply people say the same.

Five go to Kirrin Island? They make beds out of heather/lavender and sleep in a cove accessed by a hole in the roof? Then of course they discover some ruffians up to no good.

@HoneysuckIejasmine

It was Five Run Away Together. Absolutely my favourite FF story, I read it so many times.

I love the bit where they go to the bakery before dawn to buy bread for the trip, then eat the warm crust in the boat.

Secret island! I loved that book, they ran away as they thought their parents had died but they did return at the end I think.

Some day trippers went to the island for a picnic and heard the cow but thought it was thunder

Ran off or ran away?

Definitely The Secret Island. I loved that book as a child. I spied it in Waterstones last week and was thinking it might be a nice one to read to my girls.

The Secret Island was my absolute favourite as a child. Jack, Mike, Peggy and Nora are the children. They have a cow and hide in caves and have adventures.

There are books that follow on from it but we had to stop reading them: I can explain the sexism but not the open racism in the other books

I can't believe I'm reading this! I have always wondered what it was called i read it I don't recall finishing the book... it's annoyed me for years.

The Secret lsland. It's my favourite childhood book

@YoureAllABunchOfBastards

The Secret Island was my absolute favourite as a child. Jack, Mike, Peggy and Nora are the children. They have a cow and hide in caves and have adventures.

There are books that follow on from it but we had to stop reading them: I can explain the sexism but not the open racism in the other books

Mike that's it! It was bugging me because I only read it last week Just couldn't be bothered to go and find the book and look it up! Its such a shame that the books have dated badly in the sense they are sexist and racist. Because they are wonderful stories.

Oh I was thinking about this series earlier, the books about the forest and the one with the eclipse. I couldn't remember anything else about them so thank you!

The one with the Eclipse is The Secret Mountain, where they go on an adventure with their parents (are they archaeologists or something?) and a foreign prince they befriended.

I loved it, but I expect it’s super racist.

The Secret Island is one of my favourites! I've read it at least once a year since I was about 7, and am now quite a few decades older than 7. I love the descriptions of all of their meals, and then weaving baskets to sell berries. It's a lovely hug of a book.

Five go to Kirrin Island? It was the first of the famous five books I think.

@WinterAndRoughWeather

The one with the Eclipse is The Secret Mountain, where they go on an adventure with their parents (are they archaeologists or something?) and a foreign prince they befriended.

I loved it, but I expect it’s super racist.

In the secret island it says that they make money from their flying. They also say they've given it up but fly off to Africa in later books.