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Tag Archives: The Five Find-Outers
The Mystery of the Secret Room
The Story Now I raced through the last Five Find-Outers book, pretty much in a day but unfortunately I didn’t quite get carried away in the story of the Secret Room as much as the Disappearing Cat. Fatty still annoys … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 5
I’m keeping up with my resolution to do at least one of these a month (so far!). Previous instalments can be seen here, here, here and here. As always my own copy is a Methuen from 1957 – a 12th reprint/impression of the original. The new … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 4
I’m determined to keep coming back to this every third week or so, purely so that it doesn’t take me a whole year to get through it! The other parts are here, here and here. As always my own copy is a Methuen from … Continue reading
A Guide to Blyton on TV and in film
This is a chronological list of Enid Blyton’s works adapted for TV and film. I haven’t included stage or theatre productions unless they were filmed. I have tried to include information about who made the work, the cast, episode titles … Continue reading
Posted in Blyton on TV
Tagged 2020s Famous Five Series, 70s Famous Five TV Series, 90s Famous Five TV Series, Children's Film Foundation, Funf Freunde, Hanni and Nanni, Malory Towers on TV, Noddy, The Adventure Series DVD, The Castle of Adventure TV series, The Comic Strip Presents, The Five Find-Outers, The Secret Series DVD
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The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 3
It has only been two weeks since the last instalment but I would like to try to get through this book before the end of the year! The first parts can be seen here and here. As before my personal copy is … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 2
This week I’m back with the Five Find-Outers to see what else has changed. The first post can be seen here. To remind you – my personal copy is a Methuen from 1957 – the 12th reprint/impression of the original edition. The new … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat
Well it’s safe to say I found my copy of the book, and as I had the day off on Monday due to my tootling up and down the country during the weekend I thought I would get on and … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage: How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition?
On Monday I said that I would be comparing The Twins at St Clare’s. Only I discovered, at the last minute, that I had in fact already completed that back in May. I spent about five minutes going what am I going to … Continue reading
If you like Blyton: Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens
Occasionally Fiona and I find books that feel like the Blyton books we so know and love. Modern authors can sometimes channel our beloved authoress and we do our best to find them and bring them to your attention. So … Continue reading
Making Blyton’s Food: Fresh and gooey macaroons!
Fresh and gooey macaroons! What Enid Blyton fan doesn’t hanker after macaroons? Whether you’re a Find-Outer or a Famous Fiver, macaroons centre deeply within these books, and are mentioned time and time again and they leave us youngsters wondering; “What … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage
As you may know, I’m not very good at bringing you the blogs I promise, but this week I have been super good, even though I’ve been on holiday with Fiona, and re-read the first Five Find-Outers book The Mystery of … Continue reading
What I nearly bought this week…
A blog staple these days seems to be a “haul” post, often by video, showing off the blogger’s latest purchases – mostly of clothes and make-up though I’ve seen supermarket ones and baby things ones as well. Any hauls on this … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences
Tagged eBay, Holiday Books, Marks and Spencers, Online Shopping, The Five Find-Outers, Virtual Haul
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Find-Outers in Retirement by Julie
After reading through the complete Mystery Series for the umpteenth time I suddenly started to wonder what they would all be doing now, at this moment in time. That was in the year 2008. I quickly did some calculations of … Continue reading
Posted in Fan fiction
Tagged Bets Hilton, Ern Goon, Fatty, Plagiarism, The Five Find-Outers, Written by Julie
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Poppy’s Book of the Month: The Mystery of the Missing Necklace
By Poppy Hutchinson Title: The Mystery of the Missing Necklace Series: The Mystery Series Main Characters: Fatty, Larry, Pip, Bets, Daisy & Buster Published: 1945 First Published By: Methuen Rating (Out of 5): 5 Possibly the best and positively my … Continue reading
Who’s Who in Enid Blyton by Eva Rice, a (very critical) review part one: Adventure Stories
I’ve had this book a while and have only read it once. I remember being a bit disappointed by it… and I thought I’d give it a re-read to see if I could figure out why. My first thoughts are … Continue reading
The eBay of Adventure
I am sure that at one time or another we have all been on eBay, bidding away on something we want so desperately. That in the last few hours of the auction running time we have checked in repeatedly to … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences, Purchases
Tagged Bill Cunningham, eBay, Fatty, Julian Kirrin, The Adventure Series, The Five Find-Outers
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When people search for Enid Blyton, what are they looking for? (#1)
When people search for Blyton related media, what are they looking for? A large proportion of our blog views* come from various search engines – and WordPress tells us exactly what the search terms were. It’s really interesting to see … Continue reading
Adventure Preparation Land – Fan Fiction by Pete
The Famous Five ignore a ‘no through route except v.i.v.’ temporary road sign in a part of uncharted and unmapped Dorset… They are on a cycling tour to buy each one of themselves the last ever bottle of ginger pop in a … Continue reading
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