Today, we have my mother's third pick for the #1954Club, Good Work, Secret Seven by Enid Blyton! If you were a child in the fifties and sixties, Enid Blyton’s child detective series would have been an essential part of your existence. The Five Findouters and Buster, the Famous Five and Timmy, the Barney “R” Mysteries…
Book Review: The Caravan Family by Enid Blyton
Looking at my 2021 reads so far (since we are heading towards the end of the year), I realised that I hadn’t read/re-read a single Blyton book in 2021, which is quite rare for me. So, to remedy that I picked up the first of a series I’ve been planning to read for a while,…
Shelf Control #90: Holiday House by Enid Blyton #TBR #Mystery #Children’sLiterature
Wednesday, the 13th of May--time once again for Shelf Control! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what its about,…
Malory Towers Series Review #EnidBlyton #Children’sBooks #SchoolStories
Last week I finally finished my revisit of Enid Blyton's Malory Towers books. (I say finally because while I started my revisits last year, and finished the first five books, because of various things, I only got to the final book this year). While I have reviewed each of the books individually as I read…
Malory Towers Challenge: Last Term at Malory Towers by #EnidBlyton
The final Malory Towers book, and thus the final part of my revisit of these books, which I ended up picking up many months after I’d read book 5. In this one Darrell and Sally, and the rest of their form are returning to Malory Towers for their last term. Darrell and Sally and also…
Shelf Control #60: The Caravan Family by #EnidBlyton #Children’sLiterature
Wednesday the 25th of September--time again for Shelf Control. Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. To participate, simply pick a book from your TBR pile and write a post about it. Link back to Lisa's page, and…
Children’s Book (?) of the Month: Enid Blyton’s School Stories
This month I didn't read any children's books except for In the Fifth at Malory Towers which I've reviewed already (here). So for my children's book of the month this time, I thought I'd do a more general post about Enid Blyton's school stories. If you've been following this blog, you know of course that…
Malory Towers Challenge: In the Fifth at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
It's been a few months since I last read a book in this series though I've been thinking about it for sometime now. I read and reviewed book 4 last November (here), where Darrell's sister Felicity, attends Malory Towers for the very first time. In book 5, Darrell and Felicity return to Malory Towers, where…
Malory Towers Challenge: Upper Fourth at Malory Towers
Book #4 for my Malory Towers challenge. I would like to clarify that for this ‘challenge’ I’m only reading the original six books written by Enid Blyton herself. There are six further books by Pamela Cox which explore more of Felicity’s adventures. Read a little about them on the World of Blyton Blog here. …
Malory Towers Challenge: Third Year at Malory Towers
Book #3 for my Malory Towers Challenge, or rather of me reading through the Malory Towers books chronologically. Although this one is titled ‘third year’, as always, it deals with one term at the school. The story opens as usual with Darrell preparing to return to Malory Towers, where her sister Felicity will be joining…
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