My first Christmas post of the year went up last week. There may be more yet, there may not, as I might have exhausted the Blyton Christmas material that I have! While I figure that one out I have come up with other posts in the mean time.
Malory Towers on TV: A series two overview
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Enid Blyton references in other works of fiction part 2
Ronnie, Susie and George were all feeling very sad. Not so much because they were going back to their boarding-schools in a few days, but because when they next broke up for the holidays, their lovely home, Grey Towers, would belong to someone else!
“Why can’t we keep it for ourselves?” asked Susie. “Mother, it’s been our home, and Daddy’s home, and Grandpa’s home, and even Great-Grandpa’s home! Why have we got to leave? It ought to be our home too!”
“Well, dear, we’re poor now,” said her mother. “We can’t afford to keep up a big place like this, even though it has belonged to us for three hundred years! Our family used to be rich, you know, in your great-great-grandfather’s time. But then he offended a friend of the king of that day and he was stripped of all his money and the famous family jewels.”
“All of them?” said Ronnie, who had heard this story before. “I thought, Mother, that great-great-grandpa hid some of his treasure.”
This is the beginning of Smuggler’s Cave, originally published in the Evening Express in 1945 it was then used in The Enid Blyton Treasury in 1947. The premise of the story will be familiar if you’ve read The Treasure Hunters (1940), but has elements also seen in The Rockingdown Mystery, The Secret of Spiggy Holes and many other Blyton stories.
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Thanks so much for this information. Smugglers Cave is a seperate book, then? I have not heard of this book as such,but would love toknow if editions are available? Rashmi Varma.
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You have to look for an old edition of Enid Blyton`s Treasure of 1947. Also the other stories are worth reading. In addition wonderful artwork.
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If you can’t get your hands on an old book: There’s an edition of the Adventure Treasury at amazon as e-book (Kindle Edition £3.99) that includes this story.
I don’t know the older edition so I don’t know if there have been many changes. But for me – not in the UK – the e-book was the best solution. Unfortunately the illustrations are missing.
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Thank you so much.
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Smuggler’s Cave (careful not to confuse it with The Smuggler’s Caves) is in two other collections.
Smugglers’ Cave {ill. Stanley Lloyd}
from Enid Blyton’s Treasury (Evans Brothers 1947)
Smugglers’ Cave
from A Night on Thunder Rock and other adventure stories (Sparrow 1983)
Smugglers’ Cave
from Enid Blyton’s Adventure Treasury (Hodder Children’s Books 1999)
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A Night on Thunder Rock and other Adventure Stories s by Enid Blyton?
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A Night on Thunder Rock and Other Adventure Stories is written by Enid Blyton then?
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Yes, it is 🙂
https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book-details.php?id=2076
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Thank you,Hannah, for the information.
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Fiona, have you featured NODDY MEETS FATHER CHRISTMAS 1955?
I only came across it recently – Regards Pete.
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Yep! I’ve reviewed all 24 of the main series, though not in order. Noddy Meets Father Christmas was the one I did last. https://worldofblyton.com/2016/06/29/my-twenty-fourth-and-last-noddy-book-noddy-meets-father-christmas/
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