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Tag Archives: Armada
The Naughtiest Girl in the School covers through the years
Previous covers through the years : The Famous Five, The Adventure Series, The Secret Series, Malory Towers, The Barney Mysteries, Mr Galliano’s Circus, St Clare’s There are only three Naughtiest Girl books if you are counting the original novels; The … Continue reading
The St Clare’s covers through the years, 1940s – 1980s
Having already done The Famous Five, Adventure Series, Barney Mysteries, Malory Towers, the Secret Series and Mr Galliano’s Circus, I’m now going to tackle St Clare’s. There are six books in the St Clare’s Series (if you don’t include the … Continue reading
Posted in Illustrations and artwork
Tagged Armada, Dragon, Mary Gernat, Methuen, St Clare's, W. Lindsay Cable
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The Malory Towers covers through the years
Previously I have written about the Famous Five covers, the Adventure Series covers and the Secret Series covers. Now I’m going to look at the covers from Malory Towers, my favourite of the school series. Inside and out with Stanley … Continue reading
Posted in Illustrations and artwork
Tagged Armada, Dragon, Lilian Buchanan, Malory Towers, Mary Gernat, Methuen, Stanley Lloyd
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The Secret Series covers through the years
I recently looked at the different covers used for the Famous Five books and The Adventure Series. One series. Five books. Four cover artists. The Secret Series is perhaps unusual due to how many different cover artists the series had. While … Continue reading
The Adventure Series covers through the years part 2
Last week I wrote a great deal about the Stuart Tresilian covers for this series. In my defence there are three different covers for six of the books and two for the other two. That’s twenty-two different designs! Anyway, after … Continue reading
Posted in Illustrations and artwork
Tagged Armada, Macmillan, Piccolo, Piper, The Adventure Series, The Castle of Adventure, The Circus of Adventure, The Island of Adventure, The Mountain of Adventure, The River of Adventure, The Sea of Adventure, The Ship of Adventure, The Valley of Adventure
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Article Review: The Children Who Inspired Enid Blyton’s Famous Five Book covers are revealed
I know I promised you, a review of the audio adaptation of Second Term at Malory Towers, unfortunately I’ve been unable to locate my cassette tape of this one, and at rather the last minute as well. I took drastic … Continue reading
Posted in Blyton in the media
Tagged Armada, Dragon, Illustrators, Malory Towers, Mary Gernat, Painting, Rubbadub Mystery
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Comparing Hollow Tree House and The Secret Island
Hollow Tree House was one of my favourite Blyton books as a child, though I’ve not read it in ages. I meant to, after blogging about my childhood books ages ago, but I just never got around to it. The … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews
Tagged Armada, Comparisons, E.H. Davie, Elizabeth Wall, Hollow Tree House, The Secret Island
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My childhood books, part 6
With all the series posts complete it’s time for me to look back at the stand-alone titles I had as a child. In no particular order I had Hollow Tree House, The Children at Green Meadows, The Put-em-Rights, Those Dreadful Children, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences, Purchases
Tagged Armada, Bimbo and Topsy, Dean & Son, Editions, Elizabeth Wall, Grace Lodge, Hollow Tree House, Illustrators, Liz Roberts, My Childhood Books, Stand Alone Titles, The Family at Red-Roofs, The Put-em-Rights, Those Dreadful Children, W. Spence
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My childhood books, part 3
Parts one and two covered Amelia Jane, the Famous Five, the Adventure Series and Malory Towers. Next I’m going to blether about the Secret Series, the Galliano’s Circus Series and the Adventurous Four. THE SECRET SERIES I’ve always liked the Secret Series, though … Continue reading
My childhood books, part 2
Welcome to another lengthy ramble and reminiscence! Part One covered Amelia Jane and the Famous Five and this part will be about the Adventure Series and Malory Towers. THE ADVENTURE SERIES I think I started reading the Adventure Series not … Continue reading