Enid Blyton Ü 4 characters
Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series.
Five On A Treasure Island
A shipwreck off Kirrin Island! But where is the treasure? The Famous Five are searching for clues - but they're not alone ... Someone else has joined the treasure hunt.
Five Go Adventuring Again
A thief at Kirrin Cottage! Who can it be? The Famous Five think they know - but they need proof! Then they find an old map and an unusual hiding place ...
Five Run Away Together
Who's been on George's Island? And what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they're on the trail of smugglers - until they hear a child scream ...
This 70th anniversary edition features the Classic editions of the first three Famous Five adventures in one volume and contains the original cover art and inside drawings by Eileen Soper. The Famous Five Collection 1: Books 1-3 (Famous Five, #1-3)
george is trans or a butch lesbian, change my mind Childrens, Mystery, Fantasy This is my most favourite of the Famous Five mysteries. Five on a Treasure Island forms the very root of the adventures that Julian, Dick, Anne, and George are involved in.
Five on a Treasure Island :
Siblings Julian, Dick and Anne are sent to spend the summer holidays at their Uncle Quentin's. They meet the tomboy Georgina who loves to be called George and treated as a boy. At first, she is rather rude and considers her cousins a nuisance upon her life. But, as nobody 'can be sulky around Julian', she finds her best friends forever. They in turn get to share a new friend, a new dog, and a marvellous new island topped with a ruined castle. But, could there really be gold bars in the dungeons?
Five Go Adventuring Again :
Winter holidays strike and with it comes a tutor. What a pain! The four kids are obligated to study every morning with a man who impresses three of them. George is not happy with Mr Roland, because no one 'can meet Timmy and not love him'. Despite her dog's misgivings about the new teacher, George finds other mysteries around the man, while the rest of the gang trust him completely. Her scientist father's secrets are stolen from his very study in their snowed-up home. How did that happen?
Fine Run Away Together :
The summer comes around again and we find bigger children and one teenager (Julian). The Five are forced into despair as Aunt Fanny is taken ill and the only adults around are the horrible Sticks who are pronounced in-charge by their Uncle. What choice do they have but to run away? Where would they go when they have their own lovely island? And that's exactly what they do!
These books are simply awesome for a growing child. So many simple, but, profound lessons are found in them. Ages 8 and up! Childrens, Mystery, Fantasy Yes I love books about aliens and zombies, murderers and psychopaths but I also love quaint books set in a time where there was considerably less to worry about. When kids could wander without worry and every farm was willing to feed you.
I read the first book many many many years ago, it was my cousins, I borrowed it, I never gave it back and she still reminds me to this day. I actually still have it so I might return it. I instantly loved the five, their slightly posh ways and wonderful picnics.
This collection draws together the first three books -
Five on a Treasure Island
Where siblings Julian, Dick and Anne meet their cousin George, a tomboy with a heart of gold along with her dog Timmy. It’s set upon Kirin Island where George proudly shows off her island to her cousins. They discover shipwrecks, dungeons and treasure but quickly discover other people are after them too.
Five go Adventuring Again
It’s Christmas time and they have to get a tutor over the holiday period as they have been ill, their charming tutor soon wins all but George round. She doesn’t trust him and when things go missing in Kirrin Cottage the five begin to investigate discovering strange maps and hidden passages.
Five Run Away Together
George’s mother is ill, the families temporary cook is looking after them but she is a nasty piece of work and the Five discover she may just be up to something. They decide to upsticks and hide out on Kirrin Island but once more the island is being used by some unscrupulous people, can the Five play detective again and get to the bottom of it?
These books are all good fun and off course they were published back in the 1940’s so a lot of it does come across as old fashioned. But these are still good stories, Julian does comes across as a stuck up male chauvinist pig most of the time and Anne’s delight at housework will make people cringe, one thing that has changed though is my opinion of George’s scientist father, he did come across as a bad tempered old so and so but now as a mother of two rambunctious daughters I can see all he wants is piece and quiet to his work!
It’s nice to take a trip down memory lane and these stories are still as enjoyable to me now as they where thirty years ago.
Childrens, Mystery, Fantasy I loved this book and have read it thrice already. I recommend this book if you like to read adventurous books.
Childrens, Mystery, Fantasy Sometimes it’s better to let books you loved reading as a child remain in the realm of nostalgia… Childrens, Mystery, Fantasy
Love Enid Blyton. Enchanted Woods and Faraway Tree, then the Famous Five. So well written and such a joy to read aloud to children. 80 years on these books are still great. Childrens, Mystery, Fantasy I have read all the official famous five books. They are really good, the plots of each book are great, and overall the characters are great. But, some aspects of the overall plots are lack luster. No, lack luster is not right. There's just something, I'm not sure what, that just doesn't quite seem right. Either way, it's a completely amazing and absorbing world the books take you into, its peaceful and of course set on earth, its not sci-fi, but its just so beautiful. The descriptions Blyton gives us are amazing and wonderful.
Characters:
Julian:
He is the oldest, and the most sensible. He helps his siblings and cousin through the adventures they all face, and he is almost a perfect teenager. It's the way he acts although he is a teenager that makes you realise this must be fiction😂.
George/Georgina: She is a stubborn character. But she is good, and she never lies. She is what everyone aspires to have for a best friend.
Dick/Richard: Adventurous and caring is Dick. He is always there for the other 4, and he is the same age as George.
Anne: She may be the youngest, and at times is afraid, but she still helps a lot. The other 4 would have starved to death on MULTIPLE occasions if not for Anne. She is brave and kind in her own right.
Timmy: He is a dog. What else do you need to know? He is caring, loyal, and loves biting the bad guys. He has protected the other 4 on multiple occasions, and is everything you would want in a dog.
Those are the main characters, but of course there are others. Aunt Fanny, Her husband, Julian, Dick and Anne's parents, and many other character they meet on their adventures.
Ages 7+. Childrens, Mystery, Fantasy what do I say about Famous Five, something which I loved reading as a kid, ran short of it in the library. Now I get to read them in the kindle almost a decade later.
Third re-read, great way to recollect fond old memories!
Great escapades, great writing,
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This is the Enid Blyton Famous Five Series of Books 1-3.
1. Five on a Treasure Island.
Julian, Dick and the youngest, Anne, go to stay with their Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny who has a daughter named Georgina, whom they have never met. When they meet they find out Georgina is very difficult and only answers to being called George as she has always wanted to be a boy! Slowly, though, they become friends, especially as George has a secret, her precious dog called Timothy. George has been forbidden from keeping him, so she secretly keeps him with her friend, fisherman's son, Alf. To pay for his upkeep she gives Alf all her pocket money. Aunt Fanny lives in Kirrin Cottage and they have a farm called Kirrin Farm. Legend says that there are gold ingots buried somewhere nearby. But most excitingly, Kirrin Island has been gifted by Aunt Fanny to George! George takes all her cousins to Kirrin Island and tells them about the boat wreck under the sea and shows it to them. Then one day a storm brings the wreck to the surface and everyone explores it and find a tin in which some clues are left to where the ingots are kept. It's then a race against time as some criminals come to buy the island ostensibly to help tourism. Uncle Quentin who is a clever scientist but not very rich wishes to sell so he can give George and Aunt Fanny special comforts but little does he know the Famous Five will find a room filled with ingots on George's and her cousins' very own island, Kirrin Island.
2. Five Go Adventuring Again.
George and Anne and Timothy have now joined the same girl's boarding school. Julian and Dick as usual are together are their boy's boarding school. It's the Christmas Holidays and George has been promised an amazing holiday and Julian, Dick and Anne's home; unfortunately, their mother has scarlet fever and so is in quarantine and so they must go to George's home at Kirrin Cottage. George, who has always been with her parents, is quite behind in her studies and Julian and Dick had influenza last term, so they will be having a tutor for the holidays to help them catch up! Anne did quite well though. Uncle Quentin then decides to hire someone by the name of Mr Roland who is very knowledgeable about the scientific work he is working on and how he is going to change the nation with his formula. The children go to meet him at the railway station and are surprised to find that he is not so bad. However, he does not like Timothy the dog and neither does Timothy the dog like him! Anyone Timmy doesn't like, George doesn't like! So the battle lines are drawn. The children find a map which tells about dungeons and the like in Latin and ask Mr Roland about it. But could the children's (minus George and Timothy's) trust in Mr Roland be their biggest mistake? Some important core documents of the scientific work are stolen from Uncle Quentin's office and test tubes are destroyed. George nearly exposes Mr Roland who uses his good graces with Uncle Quentin to throw out the family protector (Timmy) from the house and into the dog kennel. They find out the artists who are staying as rentals in Kirrin Farm are Mr Roland's friends in their nefarious plan. George finds out quite by mistake where are the dungeon tunnels and the Famous Five save the day .... again!
3. Five Run Away Together.
George, Anne, Julian, Dick and Timothy are back again in Kirrin Cottage but George's mother is taken ill suddenly! Their old cook is also away as she is looking after a relative and a nasty lady called Clara Stick and her son Edgar and dog Tinker are instead helping at Kirrin Cottage. George's mother is rushed to hospital and Uncle Quentin goes with her, saying he would not return until Aunt Fanny is better. Mrs Stick's husband also lands up and the three of them and Stinker as the Five call him take advantage of the situation. Then George and her cousins and Timmy decide to run away to Kirrin Island, making the Sticks think they are catching the train home. An infuriated George had noticed some smoke from the island which could have been from day trippers. They then noticed a locked trunk in their wreck. Smugglers maybe? They decide to stay in a well-protected cave and had taken a lot of food and drink with them. As the clues start to click they realise that not smuggling, someone has been kidnapped, none other than a little girl named Jenny. Uncle Quentin rushes from the hospital to Kirrin Cottage as no one was receiving his phone calls and finds the house had been ransacked! (by none other than you-know-who the Sticks and Stinker). He rushes to the police and so do George and the others with little Jenny in tow. Julian explains it all and helps the police to arrest the Sticks and Stinker and the Famous Five do it again! Childrens, Mystery, Fantasy
