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Tag Archives: The Island of Adventure
My three top baddies
And so here is my ‘surprise’ for the week. Talking of surprises we will also have one on Sunday for you – a Halloween themed one. Continuing on from three favourite characters, and three favourite adults I have decided to … Continue reading
The Adventure Series on TV – The Island of Adventure
Several people have told me that The Adventure Series got a better adaptation than The Secret Series did, so here I am about to test that theory. FIRST UP: THE THEME SONG This sounds like it should be part of a … Continue reading
Posted in Blyton on TV
Tagged The Adventure Series, The Adventure Series on TV, The Island of Adventure
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 13
We are finally in the home stretch for this lengthy comparison. There were only three chapters left of the book and I got them all done tonight! For my next comparison series I will pick something short – I’m thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Updating Blyton's Books
Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 12
The first week of our new schedule hasn’t quite gone to plan. Tonight I settled down to review Cheer Up, Little Noddy for you. Unfortunately when I opened the book I discovered it started on page 19. Nearly a third … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 11
I managed to get through three chapters again this week, this time 22, 23 and 24. Only five more to go, now! The rest of the series is here, in posts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 10
I managed to get through three chapters this week, 19, 20 and 21. Earlier chapters are here, in posts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine. My copy of the book is an 8th impression from 1955 … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 9
As planned, and after a month since the last post (where does the time go?) I’m back to looking at the changes to The Island of Adventure. It is chapters 17 and 18 this week, as we move into the second half of … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 8
Yet again I didn’t get a chance to listen to an audio drama for the blog. So we’re back to looking at the changes to The Island of Adventure. Chapters fifteen and sixteen this time, taking us just beyond the half-way … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 7
It’s been a little while since I last did a post on this. There was meant to be one roughly every four weeks but I chopped and changed a few weeks on the schedule so it didn’t work out that … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 6
Well, whoops. Let me start with telling you that I’ve just noticed that I’ve done part one, two, three, three and four of this so far. Yes, that’s right, there’s three down twice. So this week would have been five … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 5
Chapters nine and ten this week. I was wanting to carry on to chapter eleven – Bill Smugs – but there was so much happening in chapter ten alterations wise that I had to stop there. Earlier chapters were covered … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 4
This week we’re on to chapters seven and eight (there are 29 altogether so this book could take me a while!) The earlier chapters were covered here, here and here. My own copy of the book is a 1955 8th … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 3
We’re up to chapters five and six now, and as I was looking at my excel file I realised there was something I forgot to cover last time. Oops. It wasn’t changes to the text so it’s not too bad … Continue reading
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Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 2
On to chapters three and four this week. We’ll meet Jo-Jo/Joe now that should be interesting! The previous instalment can be read here. My own copy of the book is a 1955 8th impression and the modern copy I’m comparing it … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Us!
Yesterday saw our second birthday here on World of Blyton! Happy 2nd birthday to us! Thank you for all your support over the year, and we hope you have enjoyed all of our articles. This week we have a nice … Continue reading
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Tagged Fireworks, Monday, New Year's Dip, November, The Island of Adventure
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The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition?
I finished comparing The Secret Island a few weeks ago and have decided to do another Island based story, The Island of Adventure. I’m anticipating quite a lot of changes around the character of Jo-Jo/Joe and I’m quite looking forward to seeing just … Continue reading
The Island of Adventure
So I purchased and started reading the Adventure Series properly earlier this year. I collected a set of early editions from ebay and set about reading them. I know Fiona has already done reviews on the Adventure Series (the Island … Continue reading
Recovering from illness in Blyton’s books, part 3
We’ve already looked at flu, measles and coughs and colds, now it’s time for mumps, scarlet fever, whooping cough and illnesses of an unknown type. I’ll also briefly look at illnesses at school. MUMPS No named character I can think of actually … Continue reading
Posted in Plot Devices
Tagged Five Are Together Again, Five on Kirrin Island Again, Illness, Malory Towers, Mumps, Quarantine, Scarlet Fever, St Clare's, Summer Term at St Clare's, The Adventure Series, The Famous Five, The Island of Adventure, The Naughtiest Girl in the School, Third Year at Malory Towers, Whooping Cough
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Recovering from illness in Blyton’s books, part 2
Part one covered the flu, and this blog will look at measles, coughs and colds. Not all of these illnesses lead to holidays and/or adventures, though the other illnesses still contribute to their stories’ plots. MEASLES The measles (or as … Continue reading
Posted in Plot Devices
Tagged Claudine at St Clare's, Colds, Coughs, Five Get Into a Fix, Five Have a Mystery to Solve, Five Have a Wonderful Time, Holiday House, Measles, Mr Pink-Whistle's Party, The Children of Cherry Tree Farm, The Island of Adventure, The Sea of Adventure, The Secret of Moon Castle, Upper Fourth at Malory Towers
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The Island of Adventure
The Island of Adventure was first published in 1944 and is the first book of the series. There will probably be some spoilers in this review, so you have been warned. THE LOCATION The story opens … Continue reading
