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Author Archives: Fiona
Happy Birthday Us!
Yesterday saw our second birthday here on World of Blyton! Happy 2nd birthday to us! Thank you for all your support over the year, and we hope you have enjoyed all of our articles. This week we have a nice … Continue reading
Posted in Blog talk
Tagged Fireworks, Monday, New Year's Dip, November, The Island of Adventure
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Last Monday in October
The clocks went back yesterday and we got a lovely extra hour of sleep. It’s lighter in the mornings now, but darker in the evening, and you can feel winter’s not that far off. All the more reason to stay … Continue reading
Five Go to Demon’s Rocks: An exciting dramatised adventure
Five Go to Demon’s Rocks is also available on YouTube so I’ve sat myself down tonight to listen to it and share my thoughts. This was released on the Hodder CDs with Soper illustrations in 2007, along with Five Go … Continue reading
Posted in Audio Books and Audio Dramatisations
Tagged Five Go to Demon's Rocks, The Famous Five
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It’s Monday Again!
We’re back to Monday again, and I had no blog for you again yesterday, I’m sorry. I hope to be able to bring you a review of Castle of Adventure this week. Fiona is reviewing another audio book, Five Go … Continue reading
The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition?
I finished comparing The Secret Island a few weeks ago and have decided to do another Island based story, The Island of Adventure. I’m anticipating quite a lot of changes around the character of Jo-Jo/Joe and I’m quite looking forward to seeing just … Continue reading
Monday
So it’s another Monday. This week we’ve got another chapter of Cathy’s Barney Mysteries fanfic for you, and I’ve decided to start a new series comparing the original text to a modern one; this time it will be the The Island … Continue reading
My eighth Noddy book: Noddy Goes to Toyland
I’ve been doing a bit of eBaying again (a dangerous pastime!) and I’ve now got a much larger collection of Noddy books. Not all of them yet, there’s four I don’t have, but it gives me plenty of new stories … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews
Tagged Gollies, Golliwog, Harmsen van der Beek, Noddy, Noddy Goes to Toyland
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First Monday of October
So its the first Monday in October and the weather here is getting colder and there is an autumn chill in the air. This week we have another chapter of Poppy’s The Marsh of Adventure and Fiona will be reviewing another … Continue reading
Posted in Blog talk
Tagged Big Ben, London, London Eye, Monday, October, Southbank, Westminster
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Five on Finniston Farm: An exciting dramatised adventure
I feel a bit bad about it but this week I listened to Five on Finniston Farm for free – on YouTube. It’s the sort of thing I’ll probably buy at some point (though I wouldn’t pay £4 or £5 … Continue reading
Posted in Audio Books and Audio Dramatisations
Tagged Five on Finniston Farm, The Famous Five
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Last Monday in September
Well that’s September nearly over now and before we know it it’ll be October. October the first will bring us a new post by Laura as she reviews The Folk of the Faraway Tree, on the third I will be … Continue reading
The Secret Island – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 6
This will be the last post in this series as I’ve reached the last four chapters of the book. All the previous parts can be read here – part one, two, three, four and five. The original text I’m using is from the … Continue reading
Aunt Fanny’s Special Tomato Soup from Five Have Plenty of Fun by Helen at Novelicious
I was just thinking it was time for another reblog to bring you something new from around the web, and then today I happened to stumble upon another smashing Blytonain recipe on the Novelicious blog. Berta, for the sake of her safety and … Continue reading
Posted in Food and recipes
Tagged Aunt Fanny, Five Have Plenty of Fun, Making Blyton's Food, Novelicious, Reblogged, Tomato Soup
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The Week Ahead
And we’re here with another Monday, we’ve got interesting week for you here on World of Blyton. We have a recipe that we’re re-blogging for you! Fiona will be doing another chapter of The Secret Island and I shall try … Continue reading
Five on a Hike Together: An exciting dramatised adventure
Stef was kind enough to send me this so I could review it this week, as I was out of ideas really. It’s the free CD that came with the Daily Telegraph, and as far as I can tell it … Continue reading
Monday
If you saw our Facebook on Thursday, or our Twitter you’ll know I was working very hard behind the scenes here that day. I drafted, edited and scheduled our Wednesday contributor posts for the next month, updated our post indexes … Continue reading
The Secret Island – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 5
I got a far as chapter thirteen last time so it’s on to chapter fourteen of The Secret Island this week. The original text I’m using is from the sixth impression from October 1949 and the updated text is from an Award … Continue reading
Monday, Monday, Monday
Monday again, in fact it’s already the second week in September, this year seems to be slipping by at such a rate. I don’t think we have any blog news this week, so I shall just get on with telling … Continue reading
Five Go to Billycock Hill: An exciting dramatised adventure
Unfortunately, Five Go to Billycock Hill is one of my least favourite Famous Five books. (It’s right down at the bottom with Five Are Together Again and Five Have a Mystery to Solve.) But life isn’t fair and so that’s … Continue reading
First Monday in September
It’s officially autumn now, and we have to say good-bye to summer for another year. September has brought us to more than 75,000 views on the blog and I’m sure it will also bring us our thousandth comment (seeing as … Continue reading
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