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This is a hard book to review because while I enjoy the excitement and mystery, George’s attitude is very bad (although its not all her fault) and the other children back her up against the parents a couple times. But Julian is wonderful <3 <3 and I love the excitement!! And the castle and island and wreck and Kirrin Cottage-I love them too!Ģ stars & 2/10 hearts.

There were a few euphemisms I wouldn’t use, too. I don’t agree with all her wanting to be a boy rather than a girl, of course, or her and Anne’s wanting to wear pants. ) George doesn’t have a very good attitude at first, but she does improve as the story goes on-and in book 3 she is much better. It’s so vintage and British, and I have nostalgic feelings concerning it since I read it many times as a child and copied large parts as an early writer. Clare's.Īccording to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.Ĥ stars & 4/10 hearts. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.īlyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. Enid Mary Blyton (1897 - 1968) was an English author of children's books.īorn in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading.