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Category Archives: Reading Recommendations
Putting the Five Find-Outers books in order, part 3
I’ve covered my top Find-Outer books and my middling Find-Outer books so now it’s time for my least favourites. As I put in the first post least favourite doesn’t mean books I dislike. It just means I like them a bit less … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences, Reading Recommendations
Tagged Favourite Books, Least Favourite Books, The Five Find-Outers, The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage, The Mystery of the Hidden House, The Mystery of the Missing Necklace, The Mystery of the Secret Room, The Mystery of the Vanished Prince
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Putting the Five Find-Outers books in order, part 2
Recently I started putting these books in order of favourites, and I did my top five from the series. Now I’m going to have a look at the five books I am putting in the middle. My middling favourites, if … Continue reading
If you like Blyton: The Lone Pine Series by Malcolm Saville
I will start with an honest admission – I didn’t like this series the first time I tried it. I had heard that Malcolm Saville was like Enid Blyton and if I like the Famous Five etc then I would … Continue reading
Autumn Reads
The days are starting to get a little shorter and colder now, after a glorious summer. Soon the leaves will be turning and falling, and it will be perfect curl-up-with-a-book season, so I thought I would put together a list … Continue reading
If you like Blyton: Cream Buns and Crime by Robin Stevens
Cream Buns and Crime is part of the Murder Most Unladylike series about two girls – Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong – who run their own detective agency at boarding school. We’ve already reviewed the first in the series, Murder Most … Continue reading
If you like Blyton: The Borrowers by Mary Norton
There are five books about the Borrowers (and one short story) all written by Mary Norton between 1952 and 1982, but this post will focus mostly on the first in the series. The Borrowers (1952) The Borrowers Afield (1954) The … Continue reading
My Blyton best short stories
If you go onto the Enid Blyton Society’s Cave of Books, you’ll be able to find out about all of Enid Blyton’s books, her series, short stories and novels and novelettes: they have worked tirelessly to gather all the information … Continue reading
If you like Blyton: Mischief at Midnight by Esme Kerr, part 3
Last time I left you with lots of questions, and hopefully now there will be some answers. But first, another question… IS EVERYONE INSANE? The protesters all have crazy names and Edie ends up at their encampment. Janet’s supposed to … Continue reading
If you like Blyton: Mischief at Midnight by Esme Kerr, part 2
Here is part two of my review, where a lot of things hot up. HALF-TERM Next up is an exceat weekend – done a little bit differently from the Malory Towers or St Clare’s half-terms that we are familiar with. … Continue reading
If you like Blyton: Mischief at Midnight by Esme Kerr
Mischief at Midnight is set at Knight’s Haddon, a girls’ boarding school, and the first chapter or two sounds rather like Malory Towers. ON THE SURFACE The language is different – but it has a clear posh boarding school sounds … Continue reading
Putting Malory Towers in Order
I have quite enjoyed ranking books in order of favourites so far, so I thought I would do yet another series. I have already done The Famous Five , The Adventure Series and The Secret Series. As there are only 6 … Continue reading
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Tagged Favourite Books, First Term at Malory Towers, In the Fifth at Malory Towers, Last Term at Malory Towers, Least Favourite Books, Malory Towers, Second Form at Malory Towers, Third Year at Malory Towers, Upper Fourth at Malory Towers
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Putting the Secret Series in order
I have already ordered the Famous Five (in four parts!) and the Adventure Series and so now I’m going to do another favourite series of mine, the Secret Series. I’m hoping this will be quite an easy one as there … Continue reading
Blyton’s Winter Reads – A Reblog
It has been about five years since I presented you with the blogs detailing the books that Enid Blyton wrote that could be considered as wintry books. I thought perhaps, as the weather’s taken a turn for the worse, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Five Get Into a Fix, Five Go Adventuring Again, In the Fifth at Malory Towers, Seasonal Reads, Shock for the Secret Seven, Snow, The Christmas Book, The Famous Five, The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage, The Mystery of the Strange Bundle, The Rat-a-Tat Mystery, The Secret Seven, The Six Bad Boys, Wintry Reads
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Putting the Adventure Series in order
After spending a very long time putting the Famous Five books in order I thought I might as well see if I could do the same for my other favourite series. The Adventure Series should be much easier to do, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences, Reading Recommendations
Tagged Favourite Books, Least Favourite Books, The Adventure Series, The Castle of Adventure, The Circus of Adventure, The Island of Adventure, The River of Adventure, The Sea of Adventure, The Ship of Adventure, The Valley of Adventure
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Putting the Famous Five in Order, part 4
And now I have reached the last books to organise – the ones that came after the favourites and the middling ones but not as low as my absolute least favourites. So I am left with Five Go Off to Camp, Five Go … Continue reading
Putting the Famous Five in Order, part 3
So I have worked out where I would put ten of the books, my top eight and bottom two (you can read earlier posts here and here and so now I have reached my ‘middling favourites’. THE MIDDLE OF THE … Continue reading
Blyton for Grown Ups: Five Go Glamping by Liz Tipping
Before you worry, this is not another of the Bruno Vincent’s grown up Famous Five, but a play on the idea of four people and a dog experiencing camping or glamping and “getting back to nature” but with a few added … Continue reading
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