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Tag Archives: The Caravan Family
Monday #281
Blyton’s strangest homes, part 2 and Miss Greyling’s Girls, the failures The Caravan Family starts an exciting life for Belinda, Mike and Ann, when their parents buy to caravans for the family to live in. They do them up nicely … Continue reading
Posted in Blog talk
Tagged August, Gussy, Monday, The Caravan Family, The Circus of Adventure
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Even more search terms (#5)
This really is the blog idea that just keeps on giving. Every so often I browse the search terms that have led people to our blog and there’s always something interesting or amusing to see. Here’s the best of the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog talk
Tagged Google, Mr King, Noddy, Search Terms, St Clare's, The Caravan Family, The Rockingdown Mystery
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A completely un-confusing guide to names in Blyton’s books, part 2
Last time we clarified which Jack, or indeed Jock, was which, we covered the difference between Morgan, Dai and Llewellyn and Morgan, Dai and Llewellyn, and we made sure we knew our great-grandad from our old grandads. Now for some … Continue reading
Posted in Characters
Tagged Anne Kirrin, Aunt Fanny, Dick Kirrin, Dirty Dick, Elizabeth Allen, Faraway Tree Series, George Kirrin, Janet, Julian Kirrin, Malory Towers, Peter, Quentin Blake, St Clare's, Susan, The Caravan Family, The Famous Five, The Naughtiest Girl, The Secret Series, The Secret Seven
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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
Posted in Reading Recommendations
Tagged Enid Blyton's Christmas Book, The Caravan Family
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Monday #260
Mischief at Midnight by Esme Kerr and Blyton’s bothersome best “Clear orf, you! Clear orf!” Mr Goon says clear orf so often that the Find-Outers nickname him Old Clear-Orf. Bets remarks in The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage that that’s what he always says … Continue reading
The Caravan Family
Finally, I hear you cry, she’s found and read the first book in the series! Now perhaps she can tell us what happened in the beginning (assuming that you haven’t already read them in order like you’re supposed to! What … Continue reading
The Buttercup Farm Family
I realise that I have read this series in a most peculiar order and for anyone trying to follow the series, I’ve not helped. So I apologise. Nevertheless I have now read five out of the six of the series … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews
Tagged Animals, Ann, Belinda, Farm, Mike, Nature, The Buttercup Farm Family, The Caravan Family
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The Saucy Jane Family: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 4
Last time we saw quite a bit of text cut out of one chapter plus some other more minor changes, so let’s see what we get this time. I am comparing the first edition (Lutterworth Press, 1947) to an omnibus … Continue reading
Posted in Updating Blyton's Books
Tagged The Caravan Family, The Saucy Jane Family, Updated Text
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The Saucy Jane Family: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 3
So far this book seems to have had minimal editing, which is a pleasant surprise. Shall we see if that continues? I am comparing the first edition (Lutterworth Press, 1947) to an omnibus edition containing four of the six books … Continue reading
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Tagged The Caravan Family, The Saucy Jane Family, Updated Text
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The Seaside Family
We’re back with Mike, Belinda and Ann again for another Family adventure – well as far as a young children can have an adventure with their parents around. However, it is a big adventure for the children. They’ve never been … Continue reading
The Saucy Jane Family: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 2
There weren’t too many changes made in the first chapters, but then again the chapters are pretty short! I am comparing the first edition (Lutterworth Press, 1947) to an omnibus edition containing four of the six books (Egmont, 2014). CHAPTER … Continue reading
The Saucy Jane Family: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition?
I’ve been looking for a new book to compare lately – as it has been a weekly scramble to come up with an idea otherwise – and then this rather fell into my lap. Or fell into my Whatsapp conversation, … Continue reading
The Pole Star Family
As you know last week I got an omnibus of the Family series, tightly and newly bound in a Quentin Blake-esque illustrations, shoulder to shoulder with related stories. So I thought that this week I’d continue with the reviews from this … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Locations
Tagged Ann, Belinda, Cruise, Mike, The Caravan Family, The Family Series, The Pole Star Family
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The Saucy Jane Family
A Bit of Background As some of you will know I reviewed The Queen Elizabeth Family last year, so the concept of Enid Blyton’s Family Series was not unknown to me. However I admit ignorance in the fact that I did … Continue reading
Enid Blyton En Francais! by Ellie
Earlier in the summer I went to France for a week and whilst I was there, I picked up two Enid Blyton books that had been translated into French. I had previously discovered that my A-level French was sufficient to … Continue reading
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