Tag Archives: Malory Towers

Malory Towers on TV – Episodes three and four

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Fiona

At the start of the lockdown the BBC released all episodes of Malory Towers onto the iPlayer ahead of their scheduled air date on CBBC on the 6th of April. Despite being very excited I’ve only managed to watch two … Continue reading →

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A ranking of Blyton’s tricks, jokes and pranks

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Fiona

I had thought about doing an April fool of my own but with current events as they are (and a lack of particularly convincing ideas) I thought instead it would be fun to have a look at the best tricks, … Continue reading →

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Monday #365

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Fiona

I’ve rather lost track of the days but I think it’s Monday now! Blyton’s best jokes and pranks and March round up As you know I’ve been watching the CBBC adaptation of Malory Towers. I’ve also discovered there is a … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV – Episodes one and two

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Fiona

I’ve heard positive things from anyone who’s managed to watch it before me, so I have my fingers crossed that this will be a positive review (a rare thing here, sometimes it seems!). I could also do with some cheering … Continue reading →

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Blyton by others: A guide to prequels, sequels and continuations

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Fiona

While writing a guide to our recommended authors if you like Blyton, I had jotted down some other names. These names were of people who had written books featuring Blyton’s own characters, and in the end I decided that these … Continue reading →

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Search terms 10

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Fiona

The latest Google searches, straight from the stats page. Summaries We get a whole load of searches looking for summaries every month. Quite often they are for a book, but equally often they want a poem or chapter summarised. Blyton’s … Continue reading →

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On my bookshelf part 4

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Fiona

I’ve already shown you most of my Blyton collection, as well as my Harry Potter books and some other stuff. So here are the last of my Blytons and then some other vintage children’s book. The last of the Blytons … Continue reading →

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Monday #332

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Fiona

Letters to Enid volume 11 and On my bookshelf, part 3  They go so nice and slowly at first. Then they start to gallop. Anne Kirrin on holidays in Five Go Off in a Caravan. In the Fifth at Malory … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Fiona

I’ve thought before about the possibility of Malory Towers being adapted for screen, small or big! It’s something that appears in our search terms now and again, and I’ve written about various adaptations that could be made, which included Malory … Continue reading →

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Miss Grayling’s Girls 6 – her best teachers

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Fiona

This should really be titled Miss Grayling’s Ladies, I suppose, but as all the other parts have girls in the title I stuck with consistency and not accuracy! Previous parts, about the various girls that attend Malory Towers, can be … Continue reading →

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Summer Term at Malory Towers by Pamela Cox

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Fiona

A couple of months ago I read and reviewed the first of Pamela Cox’s Malory Towers books, New Term at Malory Towers. I wouldn’t say I loved it, though I thought it was a decent attempt at an Enid Blyton … Continue reading →

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New Term at Malory Towers by Pamela Cox

Posted on March 29, 2019 by Fiona

This is the first of Pamela Cox’s sequels to the Malory Towers books. I wrote a bit about the six new books here, and have just got around to reading the first one. My initial impressions Within the first few … Continue reading →

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The Malory Towers covers through the years part 2

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Fiona

I’ve already looked at the covers from the first editions through to ones from 1990, and now it’s time for the rest of the 90s through to the present day. Here comes the nineties While we have had some modernisation … Continue reading →

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The Malory Towers covers through the years

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Fiona

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 →

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My top Blyton locations

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Fiona

I had, initially, intended this to be a top ten. But knowing how they almost always turn into top elevens, example A (top Famous Five moments) and example B (Top Adventure Series moments), I missed the number out of the … Continue reading →

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2018 birthday and Christmas present round up

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Fiona

As always I got spoiled for my birthday and Christmas. Every year my nearest and dearest manage to come up with something Blyton-y to give me, so here’s what they did this year. 1. Enid Blyton t-shirt How often do … Continue reading →

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Monday #294

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Fiona

Inscriptions in books: this book belongs to and Five Go to Smuggler’s Top Dick Kirrin on seagulls: If they can mew like cats, there’s no reason why they shouldn’t bark like dogs. – Five Go to Smuggler’s Top (seeing as … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers, continued

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Fiona

If you ask me, a Blyton purist, how many books there are in the Malory Towers series I would instantly tell you there are six. If you asked a modern reader they might well say twelve. Twelve?? That’s double! This … Continue reading →

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Miss Grayling’s Girls 5 – the successes

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Fiona

So far I have introduced Miss Grayling and the role she plays at Malory Towers, looked at some failures, experiments and girls who almost messed up their schooling. Now I’m going to have a look at the girls who can … Continue reading →

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Miss Grayling’s Girls 4 – the ones who almost messed it up

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Fiona

Not every girl fits neatly into ‘success’ or ‘failure’. Some are distinctly one or the other by the end, some change back and forth through the years and some are a grey area all the way through. Some of these … Continue reading →

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