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Tag Archives: Short Stories
New Class at Malory Towers: The Show Must Go On by Rebecca Westcott
We have now reached the final story in the book! The plot of The Show Must Go On From the title I had already guessed that this would be about the girls putting on some sort of show, which is … Continue reading →
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New Class at Malory Towers: The Secret Princess by Narinder Dhami
I have reviewed the first two stories – A Bob and a Weave and Bookworms, and now for story three. I have been told that this is the best story in terms of characterisation, so I am wondering if I … Continue reading →
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New Class at Malory Towers: Bookworms by Lucy Mangan
I’ve had this book ages but only recently read the first story, A Bob and a Weave by Patricia Lawrence. I wrote so much about that one short story that I’ve had to review each story in a separate post. … Continue reading →
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New Class at Malory Towers: A Bob and a Weave by Patrice Lawrence
Published in 2019 New Class at Malory Towers is a compendium of four new short stories set at Malory Towers. They are set during Darrell’s time there but each features a new girl joining the school. The stories are: A … Continue reading →
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Even more of Enid Blyton’s Christmas stories
Blyton wrote so many stories that it’s hardly surprising many of them were Christmas stories. I have, in the past, written a series of posts covering as much of her Christmas output as I could – covering 1920-1945, 1946-1950 and … Continue reading →
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Chimney Corner Stories part 2
After discovering my Dean edition of Chimney Corner Stories didn’t contain the same stories found in the first edition I wrote quite a bit about that, so here is a review of the remaining stories. Toy stories The three toy … Continue reading →
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Short Stories: Chimney Corner Stories
This was supposed to be an easy review for me, but it has become complicated and cost me money! (Don’t worry, Cunningham & Petrov will return next Friday!) While adminning my Enid Blyton Facebook group several answers to the security … Continue reading →
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My twenty-sixth Noddy book: The second Big Noddy Book
Seeing as it’s Noddy’s 70th anniversary this month I thought I would look at the only Noddy book I have but haven’t yet reviewed. About the book The second Big Noddy Book, is as the name suggests, a large volume … Continue reading →
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Short stories from Rainy Day Stories
Rainy Day Stories is the first of a two book series published by Evans Brothers, the second book being Happy Day Stories. Despite it having been the best weather we’ve had all year this past weekend, I chose this book … Continue reading →
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Short stories from Enid Blyton’s Happy Story Book
Recently I wrote a post about Enid Blyton’s short stories with the intention of then reviewing some of the stories. Well, being short stories I thought they would be quick to do and therefore kept putting it off, the end … Continue reading →
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Enid Blyton’s short stories
Enid Blyton wrote a lot of short stories. I was planning to start reviewing some of them to encourage me to read more of them. But first, I thought I would just write a bit about her short stories in … Continue reading →
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8 Exciting dramatised adventures: the Short Story Collection, part 2
I reviewed part one some time ago and I’ve discovered that I’ve since misplaced that disk as it isn’t in the case. Oh dear. Disk two was there thankfully, so I can get on tonight. For some strange reason Windows Media … Continue reading →
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8 Exciting dramatised adventures: the Short Story Collection, part 1
In my head and on the schedule I’ve got the Short Story Collection marked as a one blog post affair. As it turns out (and this will have been obvious to most) it’s still a two CD set and the … Continue reading →
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Series Synopsis: The Famous Five short stories, part 2
Continuing with the final four short stories from Five Have a Puzzling Time and Other Stories. Five and a Half-term Adventure – 1956, Enid Blyton’s Magazine Annual 3 Well Done, Famous Five! – 1956, Australian Weeties Strip Book When Timmy Chased … Continue reading →
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Series Synopsis: The Famous Five short stories, part 1
Following on (sort of) from looking at the 21 Famous Five books, I thought I should look out at the short stories featuring the Five as well. There are eight stories, all written during the years the full length books … Continue reading →