Tag: Enid Blyton

The Rockingdown Mystery

The Rockingdown Mystery

by Enid Blyton (William Collins, 1949)

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A solid introduction to the ‘Barney’ (or ‘R’) mystery series. Standard Blyton characters Roger and Diana are superseded by their mischievous cousin Snubby, vagabond circus boy Barney and his monkey Miranda, and of course Snubby’s (actually Blyton’s daughters’) memorably madcap dog Loony.

 

 

Well Done, Secret Seven

Well Done, Secret Seven

by Enid Blyton (Brockhampton Press, 1951); audiobook read by Sarah Greene (BBC, 1998)

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A simple little one-sitting mystery, which actually takes up less of the book than the children’s building of a treehouse. The Secret Seven think rather highly of themselves but here lack much by way of character – except for Scamper the Cocker Spaniel.

 

 

The Magic Faraway Tree

The Magic Faraway Tree

by Enid Blyton (George Newnes, 1943); audiobook read by Kate Winslet (ABC Audio, 2014)

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Younger children will still thrill to the imagination of the Faraway Tree and the many lands that cycle into place above it. Adults may be less impressed, but at least must credit Kate Winslet for her composure in reading about toffee shocks.

 

 

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