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The children discover the Sticks have imprisoned a young girl, Jennifer Armstrong, on the island and are holding her for ransom. In all this translation made me fall in love all over again with this series, and that is the only merit I grudgingly give to Blyton. Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. The parts I skip if I can is where they meet new friends (not in this particular book I’m reviewing) whose parents have died (hence they have a mean uncle/guardian who is up to no good and the F5 have to solve the mystery). Some of this through animal impressions relying on the deeply unconvincing rural ignorance of this family of "city folk" and the equally unconvincing echoiness of the castle dungeons.
Enid Blyton's stories are read and loved by millions of children (and grown-ups) all over the world. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. However, I will not be using this forum to criticise my own father, simply because, like the rest of us, he is human, and I must admit that my actions in the past probably leant to his distrust of him. As a child it was because the Sticks were the bad guys and the good guys were allowed to be mean to them as the baddies were mean first (I hope that makes sense). If I remember it right, this is not the only hospitalization of Aunt Fanny, so in the other sequels she very well could have had an ulcer from worrying so much about Quentin or a gallbladder removal.This book begins, or reignites if you consider its role in other books, Blyton's love affair with convenient illness. Anne had opened a tin of salmon, two tins of peaches, a tin of milk, cut some bread and butter, and made a big jug of cocoa. In a way this is very much Julian’s book, which is probably why it was my favourite when I was younger, because it feels very Juliancentric. Stick does not make an appearance until he confronts Julian when the latter steals food from the pantry after Mrs.
The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Comic side relief is provided by the continued tormenting of young Master Stick whose parents the Five are going to have jailed.but prejudice is still rife today, so talking to our kids about it, instead of brushing it under the carpet, while teaching compassion and understanding, can only help. Personally, I could not allow my characters over a series of books to remain trapped in a form of endless youth, but then we will see if I ever get to that point. In fact I couldn't get enough of them and even jumped over to the Secret Seven when there were no more Famous Five books to read. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. However, to have a wretched individual make accusations against you, and then you not being allowed to defend yourself is not a nice position to be in, especially when your superior seems to use any excuse that comes about to criticise and condemn your actions.
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