The Secret Island - Enid Blyton

[dalek]

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

I got 27 on that quiz.

oh mine too

the willow house...

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.

Also The Children Who Lived in a Barn.

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

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

So Golding clearly nicked his ideas from good old Enid

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.

Scored 27 - and most were guesses.

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.

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'.

oh and thanks for the link, wheresthehamster